Word: barking
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...Basenji, a breed recently recognized by the English Kennel Club, are dogs (which cannot bark nor yelp, but only softly "grooo") used in the African Congo for tracking game...
...Argentine Chaco is in the far north of the country, a subtropical continuation of the pampas. Few regions, even in Argentina, have been so nearly ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...
...times would end. The decks, already a clutter of unusual activity, would be cleared for action. Even the passengers knew that this was no Caribbean pleasure cruise. They looked at Sailorman Roosevelt, whistling and polishing away so cheerfully, as if they knew that he could wear gold braid and bark commands if he wanted to-as if he might, when the time came. There had been rumors in the First Class that guns were being run out, that there might soon even be a shortage of butter in the dining saloon...
...Major General George S. Patton Jr., 55, commander of the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into...
Sunfish and horse mackerel, although not mad at anyone, make a harsh sound by grinding their lower pharyngeal teeth together. Conger eels bark, schoolmasters sound as if they were delivering a lecture, and the oldwife gossips away with chirps and chatters. The male weakfish, during the mating season, vibrates his air bladder with such vigor that he can be heard six feet above water while he is sounding off from 50 feet under...