In a jungle there is a continual process of growth and destruction: dead wood keeps falling from the canopy, and one is well advised, during any high wind in the rain-forest, to make for open ground, to seek safety on the river bank.
They no longer make forays into open ground where they were previously bloodied.
Sweitzer's brigade, with the 22nd in the advance, made a charge across open ground, pushing back the Confederate forces in their front.
Some of the attackers would have to make the advance over open ground from the Australian trench line.
Keep your distance as much as possible as you make your way into the building, and shoot as many people as possible from as far away as possible – you can pop the lookouts on the stairway and in the window from miles away with the sniper rifle, saving you from making a dash across open ground.
Pulling a carrot from the ground has a better feel to it than emptying it out of a pot but if the ones in open ground don't make it then second best is better than nothing.
The Iron Brigade was pushed out of the woods, made three temporary stands in the open ground to the east, but then had to fall back toward the Lutheran Theological Seminary.
"The men escaped, making good with their legs on open ground," Chris Morris's newsreader intoned.
He's either cowering face down in a muddy ditch with bullets flying overhead or having to make a run for it across open ground wearing not just body armour but a backpack that's as big as a house.
Where Judge Leon sought to make his stand was in the more open ground where the legacy of the Founding Fathers meets contemporary policies and realities.
