Word: undergrowths
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...tough job is getting back, chased by enraged Seminoles and burdened by a party of hostages freed at the fort, including Mari Aldon, a new blonde starlet whose specialty seems to be breasting her way through thick undergrowth. When all seems lost, Cooper, like Hero Gable (see above), forces a decision in a hand-to-hand fight with the Seminole chief, this time with knives under water...
Even so, Dupuis carefully examined the undergrowth. "This road is well held," he said, "but you never know. It's when you expect them least that they strike. They wriggle out of the bushes with grenades or a light machine gun-pam-pam-pam-pam -and they're off before a patrol can reach you. If they capture you, it's worse...
...Finger In Butter. The French expedition had chugged out at dawn from its downriver base. From the undergrowth ashore sounded warning signals-rifle shots that said the French were coming...
...Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with a will herself, lopping off branches, all the time keeping an eye on the rest of the party, making sure that no on-flagged...
...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...