Word: bison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West he bullwhacked across the Plains, filled then with fierce bison, fiercer Indians. He got his lungs full of pre-Dust Bowl dust, his system full of alkali water. In Utah he discovered that "in this country you'll find only three seasons-July, August, and winter...
...artist who wanted to see the country he had read of in Chateaubriand and Fenimore Cooper. Starting on a rather conventional Grand Tour, he quit it to spend the summer of 1840 among the Osage Indians: in Nion-Chou, the greatest of their villages; in their summer hunt for bison; in their skirmishes with the subtle, horse-stealing Pawnees. His book, published in France in 1844, is now published in English for the first time, with his few, expert Indian drawings and excellent notes. It has caught, between the doctor's and the draftsman's eye, a remarkable...
...hunt, along the "woodless prairies" beyond the Arkansas River, their venison often spoiled for lack of fuel to cook it. Indian police whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually enough. Tixier predicted the extinction of the bison; the Osage killed them at random, usually left 150 Ib. of excellent meat on each carcass...
...sunk a British battleship and a cruiser of the York class in operations off Namsos is untrue." Next day the Admiralty announced that no troopship had been touched, but that the "Stukas," diving wave after wave, did sink the heavy destroyer Afridi. The French Admiralty announced that their destroyer Bison was sunk in the same attack. The Poles in London verified the loss of their destroyer Grom off Narvik...
...heavy (1,870-ton) Afridi with two two-gun turrets fore and aft, might well be mistaken for the Queen Elizabeth, Warspite or Valiant, by landlubber air pilots traveling 300 m.p.h. a half-mile aloft. The big (2,436-ton) Bison, with three stacks, could less easily be mistaken for the two-stacked York...