Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raising money, pioneering direct-mail solicitations and founding a fund-raising apparatus that became one of the most formidable in the nation. In his 1984 bid for a third term, Helms spent $18 million on the most expensive Senate campaign ever, yet he defeated former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt by a scant...
...three-day roundup is as much carnival as hunt. It begins with a parade down Sweetwater's Broadway (antique cars; the Girl Scouts Troop No. 114 float; the Sweetwater High band; Dr. Michael Dainer, the town ob-gyn, with his Clydesdale and buggy; the Nolan County sheriff's posse) and a beauty-queen contest in which 21 of the town's young women vie for a scholarship prize of $1,000 and the title Miss Snake Charmer...
...parking lot near the coliseum, a guided hunt is being organized. Participants have paid $29 for registration and for hunting equipment -- snake tongs and hooks made from recycled golf clubs, a snakebite kit, hand mirrors, garbage cans to hold live rattlesnakes and a spray can with a long copper tube filled with unrefined gas for flushing the snakes from their dens. This is the snake-hunting-as-a-sport group, and its members come from as far away as Canada. Hunting garb ranges from Reeboks and jeans to paramilitary Indiana Jones attire, including boots with a side knife and scabbard...
...Browning leads the expedition. It moves down Interstate 20 in a 20-car- and-camper caravan and into the still brown land of broomweed and tumbleweed, thorn trees and mesquite and prickly-pear cactus. Browning has been hunting snakes since he was 14, always with the same high school friends. His wife Brenda accompanies him. "It's something we can do together," she says. "It's exciting, the thrill of not knowing, the danger. Bo hunts snakes like some people hunt deer, for the sport." "He's good," says a friend. "He just smells them...
...Hunt and Costello, both government majors, say they think they ought to go back. "As a Gov major, there is a good opportunity to work in Alaska," Hunt says. "Under the right kind of leadership, it could lose its backward reputation. That's what excites me--what would bring me back...