Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dawn was breaking over Edwards Air Force Base at California's Muroc Dry Lake when the husky, dark-browed test pilot chugged up to the flight line in a battered model A Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit...
Often spotty and frequently disjointed, the film traces the history of bullfighting from Rome's Circus Maximus to Ava Gardner, examines a matador's life from his eating habits (little or no food before a fight so that he can be operated on immediately if a goring lays...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that...
As his body leveled, Charley Dumas swung his right foot over the bar and then jackknifed his left safely past. His belly scraped the bar−ever so barely. Dumas could hear the roar from the crowd before his body hit the sawdust of the pit. He had broken through...
Squaw and Pemmican Unite. David's pemmican is not a simple hunk of dried buffalo meat. It needs, for its perfection, to be compounded with thimbleberries, grasshoppers, elk marrow, pounded buffalo tongues, moose noses, beaver tails, fish fat, porcupine belly and otter blubber, not to speak of flies and...