Word: underbrush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaullists were not yet happy. All of the people's questions hadn't been answered. The President had cleared away the underbrush of confusion. But he had not clearly and unmistakably pointed out the direction of the trail to be cut into the future...
...where there is a usable airdrome) and stopped him. The enemy seemed confused at the kind of opposition he got. He came in force upon one small Allied patrol, saw it melt into the jungle before he could fire a shot. The little infantrymen fanned out and sprayed the underbrush with tommy-gun fire. They shouted: "You come, you come." But the patrol did not come. It pulled out without losing...
...Neighbors Down The South" is a documentary film on the construction of the new, and as yet uncompleted Pan-American road which will link the two Americas. The pictures show the work from the chopping away of the underbrush to the final cement-laying on the road...
Asserting that "in the present emergency students cannot be allowed to wander about in the underbrush finding courses," A. Chester Hanford '17, Dean of the College, said in a forum held at Dunster House last night that the College must give "strong advice" to students on suitable courses...
...lovely islands of the Visayan Sea, and far south in Mindanao, where a small U.S. force was still intact, there must have been more activity of the same kind. The Japanese ordered all civilians to turn in their cutting instruments, even the bolos they use to cut underbrush. Then the Jap landed troops and tanks on the island of Mindoro, across Verde Inland Passage from Luzon...