Word: elephantic
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Elephants hate war. The Burmese elephant is an especially sensitive beast who loathes mechanized transport of any kind. He refuses to go near trucks, and he trumpets, shies and runs away when he hears even a distant airplane motor.
Elephants carry 500 Ib. loads over country too difficult even for mules. They cross this stiff country at the lordly rate of ten miles a day. They also help sappers build bridges. They can work about nine months in the year. The most famous elephant assisting the Indian Army is...
The Indian Army husbands its elephants' health, as each is worth more than 5,000 rupees. Elephants are regularly given inoculation against anthrax. An elephant hypodermic is only slightly larger than the one familiar to troops, but because elephants dislike shiny steel, the veterinary must attack from the rear...
Customers went after 8,500 yards of brand-new carpeting, 27,500 yards of used carpet and padding and four museum-piece Orientals (one, a 200-year-old Sarouk, originally cost $32,000). There was all the flotsam & jetsam of a huge hotel: used umbrellas, 750 pairs of doormen'...
If you can forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as...