Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...
...Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford, one of the most businesslike of the stately-home owners, laid on a lunch of home-slaughtered-bison pie at Woburn Abbey for a luxury tour of 51 Americans. Although they have paid more for their food, fuel and transport since the Suez crisis, the tourist-conscious Britons have kept restaurant and hotel prices at the same level as last year while raising the quality of tourist meals. In London...
Robert, "when suddenly we discovered on the ceiling above us two superb drawings of mammoths." Before they left the cave that evening, they had counted drawings of 61 mammoths, twelve bison, eight goats, six horses and four rhinoceroses. On the floor were many flint tools, some of them unfinished...
Testified "Pat" Partridge before the subcommittee: the U.S. simply does not have fighter planes that can fly high or fast enough to intercept the Soviet Union's new intercontinental jet bomber, the Bison. What Partridge wants: more and better fighter planes...
...When bison were grazing on the Pentagon and deer frolicking on the White House grounds, France was there to play midwife to the birth of the U.S. Believe me, despite all "chaotic politics," France can take it; she intends to stay...