Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...
...bringing down Cecil Yates with them. Helped to their cots, where they were thoroughly lubricated and bandaged, they soon joined the chase again. Vopel, still reckless, next collided with Torchy Peden. Over them tumbled Testa, Grimm, Wissel and Carpus. Led to their cubbyholes to be patched, they resembled plucked fowl, with splinters projecting from legs and back sides. Next day the crowd watched a greater number of even more spectacular spills. Six riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild jams, blown tires and careless pickups had accounted for 17 spills, numerous cuts, twisted ankles, bruised legs...
Never in the history of Wigglesworth, according to the janitor, have rotting corpses been found in the mail boxes. For the third time this week, the decayed remnants of crows, geese, and other fowl have been left in a mail box in J-entry...
...Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right has he got in the Department of Agriculture...
...persuaded Cartoonist Darling, a lifelong conservationist, to leave his desk at the Des Moines Register & Tribune year ago last March, Ding sped to Washington with high hopes of spending $50,000,000 to turn 12,000,000 acres of submarginal U. S. farm land into breeding grounds for wild fowl, refuges for other game. The plan seemed to fit in beautifully with both the New Deal's agricultural and relief programs. But getting money out of a bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore swamps he would...