Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea grew out of a conference called last spring by the National Research Council. Scientists told how little was known about the Pacific area, how fast its odd varieties of man and beast were vanishing before the onrush of civilization. To preserve these forms and study the region which had produced them would be a more lasting memorial to the war dead than any statue or building...
...which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...officer) considered any young woman fair prey, and did not hesitate to make a pass at her. He chased women openly all over Europe, not merely professionals but any woman. ... It was also a heavy drinking army.... He drank not with discretion and good manners, but like a beast...
Desperation was evidently a necessity for the birdmen after the mysterious materializations of their revered relic in Boston Thursday night. Despite elaborate attempts to snare their beast, the Poonsters got no more than a glimpse of Thresky during the evening...
...Beast. China has some 400,000 ricksha men; with their families they number over a million. They are as varied as their nation's cities. There are the muscular runners of Chungking, who bound downhill in great strides; the philosophical businessmen of Peiping, who pad their wages with commissions from shopkeepers to whom they wheel their riders; the noisy hagglers of Shanghai, whose existence is the meanest. Everywhere their shuffling straw sandals, klaxon cries and stained sweatbands are as ineluctably a part of China as temple gongs, a plum tree beside a bridge, or the marble Temple of Heaven...