Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought out a potboiler last year, charging that neither Sir Edmund Hillary nor his famed Sherpa Guide Tenzing ever set foot atop Mount Everest, but had actually turned back 800 feet from the summit. Chuckled Everest's Co-conqueror Hillary: "The man is making a bit of a goat of himself." In Calcutta last week, Author Goswami, deeply affronted, butted back at Sir Edmund with a 100,000 rupee ($20,000) libel and slander suit. Back home in New Zealand, where he is now planning an Antarctic expedition, part-time Beekeeper Hillary looked up from maps to chortle again...
...uninitiated, big-game hunting usually connotes Africa and safaris for elephant, lion and swift impala. But the quarry of the U.S. big-game hunter-deer, moose, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goat and bear-can provide thrills and challenges to rival anything in Africa. A Montana bull moose 7 ft. tall and weighing more than 1,000 Ibs. is an adequate stand-in for an elephant. A grizzly bear that can charge 100 yds. to maul a rifleman, even after its heart and lungs have been pierced by a bullet from a .30-caliber rifle, is fully as deadly...
...sportsman who wants to mix mountain climbing with his hunting, the ideal game is the bighorn sheep and Rocky Mountain goat that clamber over the fog-shrouded crags and ledges above the Rockies' timber line. Just getting to where they are is a test of a man's heart, lungs and stamina. Bagging these wily, sure-footed creatures is a rare feat; only 100 goats and 200 bighorn heads, the most prized of U.S. hunting trophies, were brought down last year...
...comparatively light 30-30 rifle is enough to fell a moose; a second will answer that only a powerful .35 Remington Express with a 200-grain bullet is equal to the task. Is a bear's eyesight bad? Should elk be hunted on horseback? Is a Rocky Mountain goat harder to kill than a grizzly? Fresh experiences refuel the old arguments every fall and keep them raging until the next big-game hunting season comes around...
Next, Miss Williams told about directions on how to cut your toe nails in the water and how to do the goat caper...