Word: deering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceded that, academically, Oxford was topnotch and that things like "Magdalen Deer Park on a medium cloudy day" were pretty fine. But as for everything else, mourned Burdick: "Youf writers have lifted the illusion so high, and war, proximity, and perhaps even the dollar shortage have forced reality...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...
...dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...
...Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention in Colorado's Deer Creek Canyon through a three-foot telescope. They trapped him, escorted him down out of the brush, made him take off his clothes, then invited him to stare all he wanted...
...Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked...