Word: hunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then blackmail that, at last, Iranians have decided to liberate themselves from the shackles of imperialism and hunt down the traitors...
...fetched (see ESSAY). In all, the 264 works by 146 American painters of the 19th and 20th centuries posted a record for a sale of U.S. art: $6,750,950. The Icebergs, a flamboyant canvas by one of America's best landscapists, was bought by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. Despite its size (9 ft. by 5 ft.), weight (more than 500 lbs. with frame) and fame, the painting had disappeared for more than a century until it was rediscovered last June in a penny-pinched English juvenile home...
...powerful element of fantasy in Space Invaders is the focus at which the computer technicians, the toy manufacturers and the games theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted through the perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt...
...This is an encouraging sign for all of them. People on the East Coast are really going to stand up and take notice of these times," coach Pappy Hunt said after witnessing the feat...
Lack of depth in the sprints, a problem which has plagued the Crimson for the past two years, may hobble the squad again this season. Hunt says he's looking to freshman Alida Catillo to add a needed spark in those events...