Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rock, and on top of the rock, as they flashed across, the pilots saw a swarm of men working-blasting, scraping, cracking stones. When the pilots pressed the buttons of their guns, and the tracers hurtled down and ricocheted off the rock, the men did not even hunt for cover on the coverless place; they just went on working...
...leisurely picture chronicles small but curiously moving adventures: Homer's delivery of a War Department message to a dead soldier's mother; Ulysses' & friends' raid on a forbidden apricot tree; the pursuit of Tom Spangler by a rich young pretty (Marsha Hunt); Bess and her girl friend picking up three lonely soldiers; Marcus playing hymns on his concertina in a troop train. The sum total of these screen adventures never quite attains the soaring enthusiasm of Saroyan's novel, and some of the preaching is hard to take. Yet at its best The Human Comedy...
Dillon held Buddy Bronsteen, Eli forward who had broken out in several recent scoring rashes, to a single field goal and Keene did a stellar second-half job in watching Austic Norton and John Hunt, Yale centers. Shields, elevated from the Jayvees at the time of the Tufts game, has come along well and should see plenty of action in the two remaining Varsity games...
...year through her 19th, the most formative time of her life, Mei-ling Soong lived in the U.S. While one of her older sisters went to Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.), she stayed with friends in nearby Piedmont, learning the idiom and the point of view. She bought gumdrops at Hunt's general store with the other girls, and went hazel-nutting with them. She was always the one who was teased, but through the teasing she learned American gags. Later the girls went north to a summer school. A history teacher asked Mei-ling to describe Sherman...
...dead set against the abolition of a bag limit. They also say that "scientific slaughtering" of excess wildlife is economically unsound, citing the example of California, which in 1924-26 paid $500,000 to get 22,000 deer killed-around $23 a deer. Their point: Why pay people to hunt when hunters will pay for the privilege...