Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committed. Whiffling mournfully, the leashed hounds were led to a broken window. Champion Sarah suddenly threw up her head and howled. Almost instantly both hounds were scrambling on the trail. Red-faced, hot and excited. Mrs. Sadlier pounded along, her champions nearly pulling her arms out. Up a hill they raced, through copses and hedges and across fields. Dawn was just breaking...
...Leonard Rowland Hill. In the hours of his hiding, with the baying of Mrs. Michael Sadlier's hounds in his ears, he had come to realize what a dreadful thing it is to shoot at a British policeman. Almost at her feet he pulled his pistol again and blew out his brains...
...behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby hill when Archbishop Curley held aloft the consecrated particle...
Foraging ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...
...edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...