Word: carcassing
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...West German hunter who sounded his fiep and got his buck last week began the typical solemn ritual. While the stag was breathing his last, the hunters stood by in respectful silence. When the stag died, the hunters bared their heads and bowed low toward the carcass. Then the hunt master cut an oak twig and passed it, balanced on his knife blade, to the man who had made the kill. The hunter lightly brushed the twig across the animal's wound. Finally, he got a leaf and placed it between the stag's lips to symbolize...
...waddle to a platform erected in the forest. There, he would wait for his beaters to maneuver deer within near-pointblank range. Out among the trees, deep-throated horns would toot calls signaling each stage of the hunt (the sighting of a stag, the shot, the finding of the carcass). Because he sometimes killed half a dozen stags at a single sitting, trigger-happy Hermann was privately referred to by hunters as "the Reich's Slaughter Master...
...prim in starched white robe and black horsehair hat, picked his way along a reeking, raucous, filth-strewn alley in Pusan. He ignored the ragged, swarming children and the whining beggar women, who envied the succulent prize which the old man had in his hand. It was the gamy carcass of an alley cat and it was headed for the cooking...
...classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne. But for Miss McCormick, it probably will serve as a steppingstone to higher things-such as a TV career and a million bucks...
...London's Natural History Museum, scientists read Sen's description and decided it sounded familiar. Rummaging around in the museum basement, they found the dusty carcass of a Langur monkey, a four-toed beast that lives on the snowy Himalayan slopes near Katmandu, capital of Nepal. To a frightened Tibetan, announced the scientists, the Langur might well look half-human and thoroughly abominable...