Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dove Shooting...
...Congratulations on a lively and readable story on the opening of dove season in the Imperial Valley [Sept. 13]. I was there, and your article captured the spirit of the occasion admirably...
After all the uproar over the Cuban crisis, Buchwald added his own classification to Washington's newly manufactured categories of Hawks and Doves: "A dove was someone who was for a blockade of Cuba. A hawk was someone who favored bombing the Russian missile bases. We might as well confess right now, we weren't a Dove or a Hawk-we were Chicken...
...often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their delicate...
...During one dove-season exhibition of trick shooting last week, Pistol Marksman Milo Ploof tragically missed two balloons tied to his daughter's head and killed...