Word: cheetah
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...residential district of Hongg is surrounded by electronic devices to detect intruders. As visitors walk from the iron gate to the front door through terraced gardens, they may notice that the burly man water ing the petunias has a revolver stuck in his jeans. They may also see a cheetah and hear the growls, if not feel the breath, of two lion-sized Great Danes...
...Mills rarely goes near the place, leaving the day-to-day bookkeeping to lieutenants. Mostly he works out of his home in suburban Surrey, which he shares with his wife, four young daughters and a small zoo (properly penned) of seven gorillas, three Bengal tigers, a panther, leopard and cheetah. Inside the house live a Great Dane, two cats, hamsters, guinea pigs and hummingbirds. "I could actually be happy on an island with various threatened species," says Mills. Threatened species are something Mills obviously knows a bit about. After all, is there any species more vulnerable to the tides...
...labored as No. 1 of "twelve typical stages in the pair-formation process of a young male and female." Defying his own boredom, Morris compiles the obvious, the faintly surprising, the wildly pretentious and the erroneous: "Anyone who has enjoyed the exotic luxuries of body intimacies with a tame cheetah, lion or tiger will know that . . . they are patted, not stroked...
...banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million. Stans' main concession to contemporary concerns has been to give up his favorite hobby -big-game hunting-for the duration; his wife Kathleen has also forsworn her collection of leopard and cheetah coats...
...explosion [Feb. 1] is the reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then can future generations be free, and whose glory will...