Word: underbrush
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...canal engineer, slogging through the underbrush on top of the hill, found a crack in the rock. In the years since, it has widened almost imperceptibly. But a month ago inspectors came down off the hill and reported a new crack...
...grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow...
...camera work is not quite so impressive as in The Third Man, but the picture nevertheless paces tiger-like, moving as only Reed can make a movie move -with a silken glide through an underbrush of menacing irrelevance. The actors work almost faultlessly under his direction. Mason, speaking the strange German-English accent he tried out in The Desert Rats, turns in one of his most careful performances, and makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming...
...four months after that, the Australian prowled the jungles of Kenya night & day, picking his way alone through tangled underbrush, catching fitful respite in a sleeping bag from the cold of African nights, alert always for the animal and human enemies lurking in every shadow. Once he drew close enough to Kimathi to exchange messages on a forked stick left standing alone in a clearing, but the Mau Mau leader eluded him before he could draw closer...
...passed through furnished us with a corps of drummers to scare off the wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party chanting the names of Hindu deities and the drums rolling, there would be occasional noises in the underbrush. But some how the only thing that worried me was a blister on my heel. I guess I'm getting blase - or just...