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Word: huntin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born here and you go huntin' all your life. You know the sounds of the woods at night on a coon hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How the Mountain Men Did It | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...tracker's real training comes from years of hunting in the thick oak and hickory woods or gathering ginseng roots, which sell for $75 a pound and are used as a tonic to prolong sexual endurance. Notes Guard Rich Trail, 20: "I've been goin' squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How the Mountain Men Did It | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Sweet Smell. A schoolmate recollects: "At eight or nine, when most boys were talkin' fishin', huntin' and playin' hooky, Howard Henry was talkin' jurisprudence and double jeopardy." He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949, then joined the law firm founded by his paternal grandfather in 1885. Young Baker quickly earned a reputation as a shrewd cross-examiner in courtroom exchanges. His natural proclivities for politics were cemented by his marriage to Joy Dirksen, only child of the late, grandiloquent Senator from Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man Who Keeps Asking Why | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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