Word: barking
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...exquisite talent explains a ticket on Quincy street. Of a line of forty cars, many of them sleek, foreign beauties, I acquired the only ticket. An adjacent vehicle had been parked so long the squirrels were storing acorns in its carburetor. Another rested with its front bumper peeling the bark from President Conant's prize hemlock tree. Who got the old tag? Don't ask ridiculous questions...
...extensive trail skiing, the "skiing-is-so-secondary" technique is the most useful. Unable to negotiate sharp turns, the Skiman may find himself banking off into the woods, an embarrassing situation at best. By the time his friends have reached him, the quick-thinking Skiman is tearing the bark from a tree and murmuring Latin words. The Skiman can then explain the rarity of the tree in the region, or some other suitable natural phenomena which excited his curiosity when he saw it form the trail...
...Canaris was led away for questioning. When he returned, the admiral raised his heavily chained arms and in the international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...
...Savannah River Valley, there was not a pine bark fish stew or a fat porker barbecue. Work had come to a standstill and people gathered in small hushed groups to discuss the stunning news: their homes, farms and small towns would be wiped out to make way for the Government's $260 million hydrogen-bomb project...
Ever since big, likable Erle Cocke Jr. was elected national commander of the American Legion, his home town had been making plans to throw Erle the biggest hoedown in history. Last week, enough brass bands were on hand to blast the hickory nuts off every scaly bark tree in Terrell County...