Word: underbrush
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...chartered bus last week chugged along a Nebraska road, a jack rabbit darted out from the underbrush and ran by its side. For a while the race was close, but the bus finally gained on the hare and outdistanced him. Inside the bus, Presidential Candidate Frank Church chuckled over the good omen: "The tortoise is doing it again...
...temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
...operation was a logistical nightmare, particularly on Guam. In one night, Navy personnel transformed a tangle of spiky tangantangan trees and underbrush into what one poor speller christened "Camp Fourtuitous," the beginnings of a temporary settlement which may house up to 40,000 evacuees. When the first group arrived at 6 a.m., tents were in place and four-holer lavatories were set up. In succeeding nights, Seabees installed lights, field kitchens, showers and running water...
...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...