Word: vines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, news is being smuggled out of occupied Europe with an extraordinary regularity and completeness, he declared, stating that New York was one of the best source for such grape-vine information...
...market day for the surrounding countryside, and the peasants left their vine trellised cottages and farms to come into town and exchange the spring produce. They cared little that the nearby hermitage of N. Sa. de La Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...
...Brazilian snake Oxybelis acuminatus mimics a liana (vine) so closely that it is but a quarter-inch in diameter though four feet long. It is thus 160 times as long as its greatest width...
They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns and quarters. They built their barracks, from foundation to rooftop...
...ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...