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Killing for Defense. Minor characters of Cut and Shoot included Cousin Armadillo, who stays on the Harris farm because he likes it, is called "Armadillo" because he has killed (he claims) 6,632 of the little beasts and keeps their ears to prove it-and Uncle Bob, who killed a man. Explained Roy's brother Tobe: "This fellow decided to kill Uncle Bob. He and two pals caught Bob in a saloon. The fellow offered Bob a drink, and when Bob lifted it to his lips, he hit him in the head with an automobile wrench. Bob staggered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pressagent's Delight | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Poking his wobbly way through the scrub, stubble and sand of Florida's Cape Canaveral comes a creature from the ages. The armadillo, his precision-made armor plate intermeshing fluidly, moseys along, oblivious of time. Skittering across his path is another anachronism, the beady-eyed, evil-looking horned lizard, uglier than the sum of the menacing spikes that jut from his body. On trundles the armadillo, scarcely noticing a wide hole in the ground. From the hole run two telephone lines; a few feet away, they connect to a pair of phones lying in a ditch. The armadillo scratches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE RITE OF SPACE | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Originates "Armadillo" Projection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Mapmakers Devote Energies to State Department Work for War, Peace | 11/10/1944 | See Source »

Through the novel means of "cartograms," air view maps, and the revolutionary "armadillo" projection, Raisz's Atlas treats the geography of world problems. A glance at the contents reveals such heretofore ungeographic topics as races, languages, religions, population donsity, poverty, disease, hunger,--and a host of others with even more curent and postwar significance, including geopolities and cultural diversions. "Our attitude on world problems," says Raisz, "depends upon our conception of the magnitude of the work that is yet to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Mapmakers Devote Energies to State Department Work for War, Peace | 11/10/1944 | See Source »

...upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: East of the River of Doubt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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