Word: woodsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However it began, the rugged sport seems to fascinate Swedes. Today, the country has nearly 1,500 orienteering clubs with 189,000 members. All schoolchildren over twelve spend two full days a month practicing the allied arts of map reading, woodsmanship and cross-country running until they become fully oriented. Evangelical Swedes have taught the sport to their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish neighbors, are working hard to spread it to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. They have little hope for the "car-crazy Americans...
Case in Point. In Lawton, Okla., Scoutmaster Joseph Anthony Pierce, out on a camping trip with eight boys to teach them woodsmanship and trail blazing, got lost from camp for nine hours...