Word: woodses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In court hearings last week, the L.P.G.A. said that spotters hidden in woods and stationed on television towers with binoculars had seen Miss Blalock improve her lies. Janie conceded that she may have done so "through carelessness or excitement," but contended that her suspension was an effort to "exterminate" her...
WHEN President Nixon travels abroad, what do members of his official entourage do in their spare time? They take amateur pictures of the memorable sights. At the Great Wall of China, Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, happily snapped away like any ordinary tourist. In Warsaw, Presidential Aide...
WITH no word of what he is up to, the President disappears into the woods of Camp David for a week. No television cameras pursue him into the wilderness; the press is barred. There are, for once, no leaks. Henry Kissinger gives no briefings. If you can believe it, he...
Roberts is lightly anthropomorphic. But his extraordinary knowledge, affection and descriptive powers irresistibly transform any sympathetic reader over nine into a fox, then turn him loose in the woods to foil dogs, fight with black snakes, chase partridges caught under a crusted snow and escape a forest fire.
Similar techniques are used in the Italian countryside, whose forest space is theoretically protected by archaic laws. Technically, speculators are prevented from building in woods. The solution: forest fires. Nearly 200,000 acres of forest were burned last summer, and Italia Nostra estimates that at least one of every ten...