Word: forest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wyoming. By midafternoon the fire fighters numbered at least 1,000-state and federal Forest Service men, Air Force personnel from" nearby bases, Deadwood's own saloonkeepers and miners from the nearby Homestake gold mine...
...them two sons of bitches come together and start crowning [i.e., spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...
...last all danger was past, though the fire itself smoldered softly through the duff on the forest floor. Remarkably, nobody was killed (a few fire fighters were injured), and the only severe damage for Deadwood came with the destruction of the two lumber plants, a lot of dry lawns, a trailer park, a few houses on the town's edge, and Deadwood Dick's famous cabin in the woods. It was a nightmarish ordeal all around, but in the telling of tales that makes old Deadwood a paradise for tourists, it was bound to get much worse until...
...action was so dull at the U.S. tennis nationals at Forest Hills last week that the New York Times's Allyn Baum, looking for a new angle, snapped Peru's Alex Olmedo lunging for a ball. The Times airbrushed out the player and printed his shadow, making it look like an ancient cave painting (see cut). The picture made a telling point: amateur tennis was only a shadow of its former self...
Fallen on such hard times, U.S. tennis experts turned to fretting about the uneven bounces produced by the chewed-up grass courts (predicted Kramer: "Some day all of Forest Hills will be cement"), grumbled that the big serve and put-away volley were ruining the game. Few outside the closed clique that governs amateur tennis in the U.S. seemed to care when Fraser walked off with the men's title...