Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this prose Noah's ark aglut with fish and fowl, an olive branch of insight occasionally extends. The Old Man has a grave regional piety towards nature, and the Boy glows with a spontaneous, open-eyed wonder before it. The cycle of the seasons takes on a sensuous reality never suggested by the city-dweller's falling calendar leaves. But Author Ruark's major trouble is suggested by his title. Page after page of The Old Man and the Boy is mock-Hemingway in style and he-boy sentiments. Indeed, if Ernest Hemingway did not exist...
...long underwear and tape. One hefty yardling won the game for Harvard, however, when he dashed onto the field of action and stole the football, bringing the initiation to an abrupt finish. An effort to continue the game, substituting a gander for the ball, was foiled when the fowl fled...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...
...stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...Petrovs' book describes in detail the life of the higher Soviet bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown a pie at the ambassador's wife...