Word: gobbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish, at his grandfather Brandon's farm, that stole his bait, sneaking off to its lair. Or how hot it was picking corn...
...number of would-be investors who enclosed money in their letters. Said she: "Cash money, I mean. It's a real tribute to the faith people have in TIME." One man from Hot Springs, Ark. enclosed a check for $200 and a note reading: "As an inveterate cookie gobbler, I'm interested to know whether you have any unsold shares of common stock lying around." From as far away as Norway and Australia came letters and cablegrams. Said Dottie: "I almost dropped dead when I got a cable from South Africa. Imagine, a cable from South Africa...
Power Politics. In Pahokee, Fla., Mayor Lewis Friend explained how he happened to shoot his fellow hunter, Town Councilman D. W. Cunningham, who had selected a tree as a handy observation post: "I mistook his polka-dot shirt for a turkey gobbler...
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