Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They must learn to catch, kill, dress, cook their own meat. They must know how to stalk, unseen, in woods, fields, mountains. If a man is spotted on his first stalking practice, he is orally warned. On the second, a blank round is fired at him. On the third, a live bullet spats close by him. Said a onetime Commando officer now on duty in the U.S.: "It certainly teaches people quickly...
Bugs From A Log. Every time Judge Ferguson got a new witness to talk, it was like turning up a rotten log: the bugs swarmed out and he had to work fast before they got away. He took witnesses to his office building through the garage, whisked them upstairs unseen. He kept them secluded in hideouts, surrounded by dictographs and investigators...
...leaderless, directionless stream of helpless, pleading, praying, begging, cursing refugees seeking food and comfort and aid to reach India. At other times, at the orders of Stilwell, we plunged into the thickest jungles, striking across unknown trails where the only sounds were the screaming of hordes of unseen monkeys and the slitherings of the brightest green poisonous snakes. Alternately scorched by terrific heat under which several of our party faint ed, and drenched by tropical rains, our ranks were affected by dysentery, malaria, heat, exhaustion. Some had sores from infected blisters; others were suffering from lack of sleep...
Radio is like Walter de la Mare's night-foundered traveler: it is never quite sure just who hears it. But last week radio found out several significant things about its unseen listeners...
...date the best Jap efforts have not been enough. The men pictured here and hundreds of others like them are the reasons why. Seen and unseen, they are all heroes...