Word: woodlands
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...Woodland Hills nurse was pelted with rocks and anti-Hispanic epithets at a high school she has walked by for 10 years without incident. "She was crying so hard, I couldn't get her off the phone for 20 minutes," said Paz Soldan. "She kept saying, 'This is my dream -- the land of liberty...
...Woodland Hastings, co-master of North House and a committee member, this week said the report's suggestions, if enacted, would not make it harder for tutors and masters to run their houses...
...largest unbroken tracts of tropical forest left in the world. Fewer than 50,000 people live in a natural kingdom larger than California that encompasses nearly all of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana and is buffered by virgin rain forest in Brazil and Venezuela. Some parts of the woodland are so isolated from civilization that monkeys are more curious than fearful when they encounter humans...
...acres of privately owned old growth that remain can be seen in five minutes from a small plane circling inland near Humboldt Bay. Thron and pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture and hot-tub decking," Thron yells over the Cessna...
...example, the chorus of fairies does not appear convincingly attentive to the Fairy Queen. Perhaps they are thinking about that handsome woodland sprite they just met the other day, or are preoccupied by an itch on one or their wings. When they do make faces of exaggerated wonder, these changes of expression lack fluency. As a result, the fairies, supposedly spontaneous and playful, instead appear a bit stiff and their gestures somewhat perfunctory...