Word: falconer
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Presently the O-8 and the O10 reappeared. The O-9 did not. That afternoon, the Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
...late '20s. The human creatures are seven: two Mediterranean servants who rut in the garden, two highly civilized Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who come for the afternoon, and their Cockney chauffeur. The true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their...
...able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Admiral Sir James Clark Ross. Then Australia claimed a slice of its own to the west...
...fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit. ..." Dying, Lenin warns the Bolsheviks to remove Stalin from power before it is too late...
...eagle is fiercer and stronger. It preys mostly on small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle's favorite food is fish. The Walkers took a baby golden eagle from an eyrie in California, christened him "Caesar," trained him to fly and return like a falcon. When Caesar was fully grown, they tested his capacity load...