Word: buffalo
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Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Pa., Riesman received his A.B. and LL.B. at Harvard in 1931 and 1934 respectively. Lawyer, educator, Social Scientist, Riesman served as Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Brandeis in 1935-36 before he became a professor of Law at the University of Buffalo the following year. Riesman has been at Harvard since...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...true enough that the passenger pigeon has been hunted to extinction (the last bird of that unfortunate species died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914), and the only buffalo most people see are on well-worn nickels. But even so, never in U.S. history has game been as bountiful-or as varied-as it is right now. As the 1967 fall season got under way last week, the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife offered the welcome news that no fewer than 8,500,000 mallard ducks will take to the flyways this year. For those with a palate...
Like the Last Supper. McKinley was shot, while shaking hands in a receiving line in Buffalo, by a mentally unstable anarchist from Cleveland named Leon Czolgosz (pronounced chol-gosh). The trial ended with the prisoner's confession that he and he alone had done it; he was subsequently electrocuted. What fascinated Friedensohn was that "in every assassination, so many of the same elements recur. People always ask, 'Was there an accomplice?' 'Was the operation performed properly?' 'Were enough safety precautions taken?' And, after the assassination, there's usually a great deal...
...concrete is mixed with a red rock aggregate quarried from nearby mountains, and the building's surfaces are busnhammered to give them a rough finish. Then, to give the site back to nature, the surrounding mesa top, wherever it has been plowed up, is being resown with buffalo grass and other local herbs...