Word: underbrush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abductor was Bicycle Bill, combed the area for five days without finding a trace of man or girl. Then, while helping to scour a rocky ridge, FBI Agent Terry Anderson, 42, spotted one of Hollenbaugh's dogs, followed it -and was shot dead. More bullets fired from the underbrush killed one tracking German shepherd that lunged after the fugitive, and wounded the dog's partner. When Hollenbaugh and Peggy were spotted moving away from the scene shortly afterward, the authorities mounted the biggest man hunt in Pennsylvania's history. As night fell more FBI men, National Guardsmen...
...very nature of air reconnaissance by fire suggests a civilian hazard in built-up areas. By stitching a few random bullets through the underbrush, armed choppers hope to draw fire that will reveal a Viet Cong position. It often works; but now and then the bullets hit buffaloes, houses-or people...
...neck of land just south of the Marine airbase at Chu Lai. By week's end the U.S. had fought its first large-scale battle since Korea and had won decisively. Smashed with the Viet Cong was the myth that the Red foe is invincible in the tangled underbrush of his home land; smashed also was the myth that the U.S. can't fight on land in Asia...
...defenders fell back on a wall and wire-bound compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
Down a road in the rebel-infested northern Congo rolled a truckload of mercenaries led by three armored Jeeps. Suddenly the underbrush exploded with the fire of automatic weapons. Not a bullet was wasted on the Jeeps, but the Simbas, suddenly battlewise and well armed, riddled the truck, killing one of its nine occupants and wounding six others. Almost overnight, the spear-bearing rebel warriors had become better armed, better trained, and much more dangerous. "Every Simba in the north seems to have a new gun now," said a mercenary sergeant from Paulis. "We're finding their old Mausers...