Word: cameleer
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...injurious to the health of the American soldiers who liberated France from the Nazi," he exploded. "[It] followed their guns on the beachheads . . . I'm afraid General Lafayette would think this decision was small reward . . . This might be the straw to break the back of the camel hauling billions of American dollars to France...
...never been there* but for 15 years he had lived in French Morocco. His house in the city of Rabat (pop. 160,800) had a cellar studio where he worked through the heat of the day. It served as a base for sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell...
...unprecedented record the Englewood, New Jersey and Lowell House sophomore has been more outstanding in the field of improvised, so-called "free" skating than in the compulsory events. It is to this phase of the sport which he has brought so many new elements, among them the flying camel jump, better known now as the "Button" camel (see picture...
...just arrived--one who gave the appearance of being just under seven feet tall and who was said to be the mayor, and another in a camel's-hair coat who said he was head of Civilian Defense--were also told by the photographers to bend over and look at the pavement. When that was done, one of the men with instruments was asked to test the shoes of the man in the camel's-hair coat for radioactivity. The latter obliged by sitting on the edge of his car seat, and crossing his legs out into the street...
...have a camel here that no one remembers, also a monument commemorating the first tunnel through the Alps...