Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolation booth seem like a rest cure. Closing his eyes and mopping his face, Bobby Crossley delivered terricolous amid wild applause. Seventh Grader Joel Montgomery coolly rapped out pastiche, prolegomenous, successfully spelled susurrus when Bobby shakily tiubbed it. Then Joel missed vinaigrous, and so did Bobby, leaving the game at deuce. In Round 30, Joel gracefully pronounced gracilescent and spelled it correctly; it was Bobby's chance to hold the tie. As he stood under the tall microphone, pondering fanfaronade, Bobby's long trousers seemed to sag. Out came fanferanade. All Joel...
...Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...
...find out what they concealed? I couldn't be certain about this." These titillating opening sentences promise events sinister, portentous or at least symbolic. But "he" turns out to be nothing more alarming than a pet monkey who had wandered into the visitor's hut in a game reserve in Kenya. The reader is soon introduced to the monkey's owner - a precocious ten-year-old girl who can converse familiarly with animals and gets no back talk...
Officially, Patricia is daughter of the game warden, a great, burly white hunter who has repented and now lives only to prevent other hunters from harming his animals. But the natives whisper that her real father is the king of beasts - a legend Patricia encourages by spending all her afternoons on chummy terms with the reserve's biggest lion...
Patricia is stunned that death has resulted from her innocent game. Disillusioned, she goes off to school, presumably to lose forever in civilization her unique communion with simple beasts...