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Word: thicketed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Hunt | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Mountain Man | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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