Word: deere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avraham Yoffe is undaunted by the problems. He plans another preserve of biblical animals on a hilly, wooded 5,000-acre tract in Galilee. He hopes to stock it with Judean lions, Syrian bears, roc and fallow deer from Iran. Like Noah, he will do his best to ensure that the beasts go forth and multiply. "We wish to live amid life," he says...
...reason may be that younger women are tired of delicate floral scents. Part may also be musk oil's reputation as an aphrodisiac, which dates back several thousand years. Before the Chinese sealed the border between Tibet and Nepal, oil from the scent gland of the Tibetan musk deer was selling for as much as $600 per kilogram in India. The new perfumes, however, are made from chemicals...
...idea is not so sanguinary as it sounds. Becky has been trained as a "wrestling lion": she neither bites nor uses her claws. Her parents were used some years back to protect the deer compound. Becky will likely conduct her nocturnal patrols on a long leash. Elgin admits that she might be more effective if allowed to roam free. But that, he says, would scare the baby elephant...
...women cooks were belatedly tried in the frontier town of Villavicencio. They were charged with the mass murder of the Indians, which they chillingly admitted they had carried out as a lark. As Morín, now 33, put it: "For me, Indians are animals like deer or iguanas, except that deer don't damage our crops or kill our pigs. Since way back, Indian-hunting has been common practice in these parts...
...fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even have a verb for Indian-hunting-guahibiar (which is derived from the name of another local Indian tribe, the Guahibo...