Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your article on "Boomers & Howlers" (TIME, Aug. 19, p. 11) reported well the serious forest fire situation with which "desperate, haggard foresters'" were coping at the time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington...
Trapshooting. North American (Vandalia, Ohio)?amateur clay target, Gus Payne of Oklahoma City; women's amateur clay target, Eunice Haggard of Winchester, Ky.; junior. Bob Hardy of Galesburg, Ill.; sub-junior, Albert Meiss of Hazleton, Pa.; professional clay target. Earl Donahue of Ottumwa. Iowa; amateur doubles, Sam Jenny of Highland, Ill.; professional doubles, Rush Razee of Denver; women's doubles, Mrs. J. C. Wright of Atlanta...
...three days thousands of men, haggard with weariness, blackened with smoke and cinders, struggled to keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
Senator Elaine of Wisconsin forced the secrecy issue by offering for publication in the Congressional Record the Lenroot roll-call as compiled by Pressman Mallon. Up rose Pennsylvania's haggard, young Senator Reed to demand enforcement of the Senate's secrecy rule. Complained he bitterly: "There is some hypocrite here who prattles out loud about law enforcement and in secrecy does what he dare not do publicly and gives out information." He called for the expulsion of any Senators who had given Pressman Mallon his in formation, announced a meeting of the Rules Committee to deal with this matter...
...current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding...