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...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...
...Will someone explain to Gina Lollobrigida that when she buys a coat made from ten wild tiger pelts [Jan. 19], she simultaneously orders the deaths of ten living tigers to replace her purchase? Her argument that "I didn't kill anything; they were already dead," is as extinct as this beautiful animal will soon...
...hawk (Victus eternus), but differs in its diet, for the thrasher thrives on yellow-bellied land snatchers and pink-tufted dissenters (Marxis militanus). The thrasher is a close relative of the Baltimore hatchet wielder (Agnewus intim-idalus) and the rednecked robin (Thur-mondus segregatus), until recently thought to be extinct...
...ever regarded as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication. The term smart set, which was the title of his first magazine, seems sadly unsmart today. The word sophisticated now applies mainly to weaponry and (in Italy) to synthetic wine. Those whom Mencken called "sinhounds," "bluenoses" and "wowsers" are virtually extinct, and Mencken lies amid their megatherian bones...
...Reyes National Seashore in Northern California are only now being resisted, but the conservationists have not won that battle yet. Abalone and kelp fishermen are fast destroying their chief competitors, the sea otters ?who now number only 400 along the entire California coastline. The brown pelican is virtually extinct, a victim of pesticides...