Word: carcassing
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...tasted of some heavy, acrid East European woe. Beside the woman, a Serbian political journalist -- a dandy in houndstooth jacket, wearing Jean- Paul Sartre glasses -- nodded angry agreement and flicked ashes onto the fish carcass on his plate...
...line that turns up in Balkan propaganda catches the spirit of things: People must decide whether they choose "to be the carcass or the vulture...
...rises this morning from the carcass of Sarajevo. The city has a clinging, ragged aura about it. Fog seeps through shattered buildings and seems to puff through the bullet holes in windows...
...first credible claim that the wolf had arrived in the park came in August, when a filmmaker recorded a large wolflike animal feasting on a bison carcass in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley. Not all biologists were convinced, since the animal appeared to have some doglike features. But more and more sightings took place. Rangers and visitors reported seeing paw prints and even groups of wolves. Then on Sept. 30, a hunter's smoking gun left the most compelling evidence thus far: the body of a gray-black 42-kg (92-lb.) male that was shot while supposedly traveling with...
Greed, envy and desperation have given rise to economic crime. In the Yaroslavl village of Kamenshchiki, police recently caught five people dragging the carcass of a cow they had shot from the pasture of a private farmer; two were habitual criminals, but three were ordinary citizens. In the Pskov region, workers on a collective farm were so resentful of the success of a private grazer that they decided to "confiscate" 140 calves and all his equipment...