Word: thicketed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...likely to become a nuisance as the English sparrow did and will not compete too much with native birds, they will be liberated in the most suitable places. If, ten years hence, a startled Arizona hunter flushes a 30-lb., long-necked bustard out of a cactus thicket, he will have Dr. Bump to thank...
...Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill...