Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the advantages, and popularity, of this kind of integrated display over the old-fashioned stuffed-animal-on-a-pedestal type, it is impossible for museumkeepers to supply the demand. It takes time and money, skill and patience, to create good dioramas. First, a hunter has to bag some subjects worth putting on display. After that, at least four experts are needed: a taxidermist to make the animals look alive again, a propmaker and a landscape painter to imitate their native surroundings, and a cabinetmaker to seal the whole display under glass...
...their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller. In Yarmouth County, at least, the hard-working dogs are appreciated. Any good duck hunter knows that given half a chance, a Little River dog will guarantee him his legal bag limit of seven birds...
...French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers in Hoa Binh. It had been the biggest drop ever in Indo-China, and another handsome victory for General de Lattre...
...busy week for Ben Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
...some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there and have to be knocked loose with a crowbar...