Word: underbrush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aware that natural-as opposed to man-made-fires are good for forests. They clear patches of land for new generations of trees. Far from depriving animals of food, the fires make way for a prodigious growth of succulent sprouts. Moreover, they eliminate accumulated deadwood and underbrush -the fuel for more dangerous holocausts. All in all, says Dick Riegelhuth, chief of resources management at Yosemite National Park in California: "It is ridiculous that we have been fighting natural fires for 100 years...
...thrown by his horse, runs toward the Sasquatch and tries to frame. Then there are a few dramatic seconds of clarity, as the Sasquatch strides along a river bed. At the end of the sequence she (the sex is suggested, by hairy, pendulous breasts) walks placidly back into the underbrush...
With the Indians' help, Córdova-Rios quickly learned to move soundlessly through the underbrush, alert to the forest's early-warning system: the cries of startled birds, the fetid scent of the deadly fer-de-lance, the click-click of an enraged wild boar. Xumu, the old chief of the Amahuaca, also instructed him in jungle medicine. The stem of the paka nixpo plant, when chewed, prevented tooth decay for years; the extract of the ayahuasca vine was especially prized for producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures...
...other signs that were all around me. Six kilometers from Skoun, my eye caught a South Vietnamese gunship making lazy circles over what had to be the city. I watched carefully now, but saw only the plane. Then I saw them, out the left window, standing in the heavy underbrush by the side of the road...
...Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look, who had spotted the car a moment earlier at the intersection of the dirt road and the paved road leading to the Edgartown ferry. "It would have been a very logical step," writes Olsen, "for Kennedy to stop the car between the high walls of underbrush and tell Mary Jo to circle back and pick him up in a few minutes if the policeman did not give chase." According to Olsen's theory, Mary Jo, a foot shorter than Kennedy and barely able to see over the steering wheel, continued down the dirt road, unable...