Word: forest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROSARIO QUATROCHI Park Forest...
Sample: about dawn one day last month 47 newly commissioned West Point second lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken...
...mysteries of life, how his heart beats, or why it is almost a crime when a child breaks a dish and only an accident when a grownup does. Sleeping and waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...
...principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte...
...kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North Carolina U., Duke and Wake Forest); a community drama bureau set up three permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island, which yearly lure thousands of tourists for a night's pageantry. The community music bureau whipped up such interest that the North Carolina Symphony annually barnstorms the whole state; the Institute of Government...