Word: underbrush
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...struck out through driftwood for the shore, he figured it out. Clear Creek Bayou, a peaceful Mississippi stream in dry weather, was on the rampage, had washed clear away the centre section of a concrete highway bridge. While he stumbled back through the underbrush to the highway, other cars zoomed smoothly up to the bridge-and vanished. Frantically he tried to flag three others. Their drivers ignored the dripping, scarecrow figure and sped on into the void. Each time there followed a single booming splash, sometimes a few hoarse shouts and screams...
...lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...
...Defense of Volochayevsk (Len-film). An exhibition of the ease with which the Red Siberian partisans took over the Japanese in 1918, by the agile directors of Chapayev. Good sequence: Japanese machine gunners, surrounded in a forest, firing frantically into the underbrush and being knocked over like clay ducks...
...evenings later, while James Bailey Cash Sr. drove out alone to a rendezvous, a stone crashed through a window at his home to call attention to another note. The thrower was heard escaping through the underbrush...
Plan. Idea that the executive branch needs repair did not originate with its present chief. Ever since the turn of the century, Presidents have been trying to untangle the underbrush of overlapping duties, conflicting authorities and mechanical inadequacies of the various bureaus, commissions and other agencies responsible to the executive. The bill which the Senate was debating last week, a considerably modified version of a report of a committee headed by a University of Chicago political science lecturer named Louis Brownlow, proposed five major changes...