Word: forest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam, lived a band of dacoits (bandits). Their leader was a fierce man, for he had been arrested by the police, and he had vowed vengeance on all patels, the subcaste to which most policemen in that region belonged: he had sworn to cut off the nose of every patel he met. But the leader had barely begun to slice when he was betrayed to the police, who shot him dead...
...religious man. He went to his favorite temple and promised to carry on the feud, and to bring the god 100 pounds of patel noses. Stocky, thirtyish, with a massive black beard, Visa led his band of ten dacoits in raid after raid on the villages near his forest, looting the homes and shops of the patels, and cutting off their noses. The villagers liked Visa, because the patels were a privileged group, and the villagers were glad to see their bosses' noses cut off. Visa announced his raids beforehand, and forced the shivering, delighted village girls to dance...
...enormous lead over non-German rocket men. To show some of the progress made since by the U.S., General Electric Co. last week gave a guarded glimpse of its rocket motor laboratory at Malta, near Schenectady. The massive test-stands are hidden in a 3,000-acre pine forest well marked with "restricted" signs. Closely shepherded newsmen and photographers did not learn much, except that G.E. has been busy on rockets since 1945, when it first undertook to assemble captured...
...fixtures in spring training ever since baseball managers found how much batting-practice work they could save a pitching staff. Last week, as was no doubt inevitable, one of the mechanical Matthewsons was set out to pitch a full nine-inning game. Moreover, it pitched for both sides. Wake Forest College, which calls its apparatus "Iron Mike," got eleven hits (three of them homers), waited out Iron Mike for two walks. North Carolina State, batting against machinery for the first time, got three hits, drew five walks. Final score: Wake Forest 8; State 0. There were no balks and nobody...
After a disastrous Southern trip, the varsity golf team meets an opponent in its own class when it toes off against M.I.T. this afternoon at the Dedham Country and Pole Club. The Crimson golfers have dropped matches to North Carolina, Wake Forest, and Duke, while the Engineers are playing their opener...