Word: camelizing
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...caught. With a cavalier imprudence he has given the camel's hair coat in the back seat to a girl he hardly knows, and the girl's mother calls the police. He goes to a youth detention house, does a few months' time, then returns to Central High School, where he is brutally beaten by his schoolmates for that locker-room job. He drops out of school, drifts, eventually joins the Army...
...moonshiner's community, coal smoke rises in thin gray wisps from stovepipes that jut through corrugated roofs. The houses are mostly unpainted clapboard decorated with weathered old Camel and Chesterfield signs; many are on stilts. The yards are strewn with empty cans, bottles, cartons, boxes. Chickens peck around them and in the meager patches of corn and tobacco plants. At the moonshiner's cabin, the approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit...
Even by aristocratic standards, Jean de Berry's appetite for possessions was extreme. He liked animals; so his menagerie included 50 swans, a wolf, a camel, an ostrich, 1,500 mastiffs, and a number of tame bears which, lurching along in specially designed carts, followed the duke on his frequent moves between chàteaux. As with beasts, so with priests: "He maintained in his home," wrote one chronicler, "many chaplains who day and night sang the praises of God and celebrated Mass, and he took care to compliment them whenever the service lasted longer or was more elaborate...
...competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace and a kind of smiling elan, despite a fall, to win the freestyle and a bronze medal overall...
Summing up the trip, Parker said, "I don't know exactly what we are getting into. The last American crew to row on the Nile crashed into a dead camel...