Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call "Station X." The city council put up $100,000 as a contingency fund to bankroll a massive man hunt. Police went on an emergency no-days-off basis, beefed up the homicide division by transferring the entire vice squad to that duty. A special "Station X" was set up at police headquarters to receive calls about the strangler; 900 came during the first eight hours it was in service last week...
...have not changed in more than 3,000 years, and falconers still speak a language that was modish in Chaucer's days. "She's an intermewed eyas, and not yet enseamed" means: "She is a young falcon that has recently molted and is still too fat to hunt." A few falconry terms have made their way into modern vocabulary. A "cad" is a person fit for no other occupation than carrying somebody else's hawk; "booze" is a derivation of the falconer's "bowse," to drink...
...teases the hungry bird with bits of meat. The hawk may refuse until death or release. If the man wins the contest of wills, and the hawk learns to associate him with food, the bargain is struck and the rest is relatively simple -for a time. A falconer may hunt his hawk for several months, perhaps even six. But sooner or later, almost every hawk returns to the wild. "Fondness comes easily to humans," sighed a German falconer last week as he watched a falcon sail off in the general direction of Yugoslavia. "But these bloody birds have no gratitude...
Instead, the report represents an attempt to live with two constitutional rights: free press and fair trial. "We agreed in Committee that we should not be a party to any witch hunt," said Paul C. Reardon '32, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and chairman of the Committee. "We were constituted rather to bring as detached and impartial a view as possible to what we were doing. We were considering the delicate balance between two ancient rights and we felt we should maintain a pure judicial approach to the accommodation between them...
...huge Kainji Dam on the Niger, six Ibo bodies were scattered in the dirt, and at least 50 more Ibos were badly injured. In such Northern towns as Jos and Samaru, Zaria and Maiduguri, communal violence raged with the intensity of last May's infamous "Ibo hunt." By week's end, confirmed deaths stood...