Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relentless, silent hunt of vast proportions was afoot last week. The field was the gale-blasted barrens of the North Atlantic Ocean. The hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
Some artists get invaluable publicity from Christmas cards. Dale Nichols hit the jack pot after his The End of the Hunt was put on a card. He got a $4,000-a-year Carnegie Rotating Professorship job at the University of Illinois, and the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bought The End of the Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod...
Last week, while the open season for bowmen was on in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Georgia sponsored the first organized bow & arrow deer hunt held in the U. S. since the Indians took to gunpowder...
...behind last week's hunt in the Chattahoochee National Forest...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...