Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
...Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written...
...starting right half and substitute center half on the formal Varsity eleven this season, Mavor turned in consistent performances. A strong runner with a long kick, he was especially good in scrimmages and scrambles for the ball. "I've always liked the way Hunt plays," Coach MacDonald said yesterday, "and I could not ask for a better captain...
Fish for the Right. As usual, a big problem was the Reds. Communism had always plagued the C.I.O., infesting many of its unions, dominating some. Right-wingers like the autoworkers' Walter Reuther hollered for the radicals' heads, but Murray managed to quell any Red-hunt. Not that he was in sympathy with Communism. But he was afraid that an open attack on them would upset everything. As he said to a meeting of his sub-chieftains, Communist-dominated unions make up 20% of C.I.O. membership. The Communists are in all unions, he said, and they have...
...Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...