Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country's cruelty in a single, compelling anecdote about his hosts: they drive along the beaches of the Caspian Sea shooting falcon, sea gulls and teal indiscriminately, then take the wounded birds home for their children to play with...
...chance to do just that (and nobody has in 113 years), it is Peter Scott, who will be at the helm of Britain's Sovereign in the races this week. And why not? He has done everything else he put his mind to. His father, Polar Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, died in Antarctica when Peter was two-but not before leaving a letter to his wife: "Make the boy interested in natural history; it is better than games. Above all, he must guard, and you must guard him, against indolence. Make him a strenuous...
...Peter Scott, skipper of the Sovereign [Aug. 21], is also a "leading ornithologist," a noted and remarkably talented painter, specializing in the most realistic waterfowl portraits. As a sailor, he is following in the footsteps of his heroic father, Robert Falcon Scott, the man who reached the South Pole only to find that Raoul Amundsen had reached there shortly before...
...highflying jet F-105s armed with "Catling" guns able to fire 6,000 shots a minute, F-100s with rockets and cannons, F-4Cs with the deadly Sidewinder missile, F-104s and Navy F-4Bs with Sidewinders and cannon, and F-101s, F-102s and F-106s with Falcon air-to-air rockets...
...Hollywood's best story tellers, Lorre was a favorite on movie sets. Stars, electricians and bystanders would group around him as he told of escapades with Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet and John Huston--the "unholy four" of warner Bros. Who made the memorable "Maltese Falcon...