Word: bustard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helping Hand. Sheik Hamed, who was primarily interested in hunting bustard with his falcons, was willing to give his "adviser" a virtually free hand. With Hamed's backing, Belgrave packed off the imported cops and established an effective police force. Only once has Belgrave felt it necessary to give his red-turbaned cops a hand. During an and-Jewish riot in 1947, the 6-ft. 4-in., 200-lb. adviser dispersed the mob pillaging a Jewish home by standing at the top of a flight of stairs and bowling the mob leaders back down the stairs into the arms...
Your May 29 Science article describes Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an excited and hopeful man looking forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...
...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...
...rapidly disappearing. They do not adjust to the white man's civilization. But in the Near East, which has a similar climate and vegetation, there are plenty of fine, flourishing birds that have got along with civilized man for many millennia. One of them is the meaty bustard (crane family), which sometimes weighs as much as 30 Ibs. Among others are the decorative, long-tailed francolin (a kind of partridge) and a varied assortment of edible grouse. Some of the birds, Dr. Bump hopes, will be able to thrive in parts of the U.S. where the original native birds...
...they carry no dangerous parasites, are not likely to become a nuisance as the English sparrow did and will not compete too much with native birds, they will be liberated in the most suitable places. If, ten years hence, a startled Arizona hunter flushes a 30-lb., long-necked bustard out of a cactus thicket, he will have Dr. Bump to thank...