Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...
...first four courses, but felt, as dessert was carried on, that if he consumed a single morsel more he would surely lose his entire dinner. He was in a quandry. But meanwhile the chief, a kindly old fellow, had observed Thun's distress and, knowing this particular bear 's fur glasse to be an unusually strong preparation, he leaned over and chanted in Thun...
Should have caused such anxietal flying of fur...
...occasion was the long-postponed coronation of His Highness Chogyal (King) Palden Thondup Namgyal, Sikkim's own maharajah. Squatting on 13 gold cushions in elaborate robes and felt boots embroidered with thunderbolts, he gravely accepted a fur-brimmed crown handed him by red-robed lamas, popped it on his head and thus became King-and honorary major general in the Indian army...
Doomed Business. Author Chevigny, who has written two earlier books on Russia's American misadventure, suggests in this one that the colony was probably doomed from the start. The Czars never opened the new land to immigration. Alaska was run as a fur business, whose board members voted themselves handsome dividends and occupied a luxurious building on St. Petersburg's Moika Quai...