Word: undergrowth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
...Burmese who had fled from Jap troops in the interior. The trails, sometimes less than a foot wide, trickled through the matted jungles and crossed ledges which dropped hundreds of feet into gorges. Dynamiting crews went first to blast away the heaviest barriers. Behind them bulldozers slashed into the undergrowth, rocky banks, viscous...
Kicking the rusty North Carolina dust in route step, a column of cadets clumped to a halt on a narrow road. Into the woods, cluttered with heavy undergrowth and roofed with tall loblolly pines, moved a group headed by a lieutenant and a brace of ensigns wearing unseamanlike woodsman's boots and hunting knives. The newest course in the Navy's crowded curriculum for aviation cadets was about to begin: lessons in woodcraft for the young future flyers who might someday find themselves afoot and alone...
Thousands of feet above sea level tower the Owen Stanley mountains. Thick, jungly undergrowth, palms, bamboos, rotting and slimy vegetation cover their jagged flanks. Natives hoist themselves up the precipitous slopes by trailing liana vines. Waterfalls, gorges and limestone cliffs form freakish barriers. Strange, malicious insects infest the equatorial hell. It is one of the world's wildest jungles. Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood. But the Japs, in less than a week's time, had negotiated...
General Wood had made up his mind that when the U.S. was really in a shooting war, it was time to quit talking. As a patriotic citizen and an old soldier he felt that duty strongly. Whether he could shut up his Committee, or control the rank undergrowth, was something else...