Word: furred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommendation of Strauss that he received his first appointment as a conductor, at the Strasbourg Opera. His career was more scholarly than Barbirolli's had been; when he advanced to the post of principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera, he also served as Professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. A Hungarian national, Szell left Germany during the Nazi era and conducted throughout the world, from Australia to Edinburgh...
...attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized crab meat, and leather, "a taste here not of the meat or the fat next to the hide but of the fur once outside it and of seaweed iodine...
...movement has not produced much humor. But the April issue of Off Our Backs offered readers a Playboy-type centerfold showing a bearded Mr. April fetchingly posed nude on a shaggy fur rug. In Berkeley, when an organization called Women for the Free Future burned a diploma to symbolize their claim that the university failed to teach women anything relevant to their situation in society, they also incinerated a Barbie doll, a book by Norman Mailer (regarded as an arch-male chauvinist by the movement), birth-control pills, the Bible, and Good Housekeeping's list of the Ten Most Admired...
...news on the environment front is bad. Last week the Furriers Joint Council of New York, representing 99% of the nation's 11,000 fur workers, announced that it had reached an agreement with the World Wildlife Fund. From now on, its members will not "cut, fashion or fabricate" skins taken from tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars and other animals threatened with extinction by the demand for their hides...
Even with the ban, some conservationists fear that poachers will continue to slaughter the big cats, since the skins can be sold in other countries. Now this avenue appears to be closing too. The International Fur Trade Federation, a London-based union, has announced an embargo on otter, tiger and snow and clouded leopard skins...