Word: himalayan
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...Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, where man-eating tigers kill scores of villagers a year, the shikar (tiger hunt) is a popular and practical pastime. The mark of a man is his hunting prowess, and the Nepalese still fondly recall the bloody 1911 visit of Britain's King George V, who carted away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated...
...that he had not even bothered to reoccupy the border post of Longju in northeastern India, abandoned by the Chinese several months ago. Reason: he had heard that "a rather bad epidemic" had hit Longju, and "we have to take care to prevent that epidemic coming down through the Himalayan passes to India...
...office on the Gettysburg College campus. In addition, his staff of 15 maintained a five-room Washington headquarters, where mail still comes in at the rate of 1,900 pieces a day. Among last week's items: a fluffy, fly-chasing yak's tail, sent by a Himalayan guide who knew Ike's name but titled him "Big Chief All American Villages...
...three-month search in the Hi malayas for the Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's famed Mountaineer Sir Edmund HiHary descended into Nepal with only one furry shred of evidence that the Snowman has any more substance than Santa Claus. Sir Edmund's trophy: a scalp that Himalayan natives, who have treasured it as a good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain...
...train, boat and plane, the handsome young Harvard man beat his way through 15,000 miles of back-country Pakistan, winding up the tour last week by bouncing in a Jeep over 75 miles of mule trail to the remote Himalayan state of Hunza near the borders of Russia and Red China...