Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital British supply lines strung across the South Atlantic. The worried Allies sent out ten heavy vessels to hunt her down and destroy her, and on the morning of December 13, 1939, three of them--the cruisers Ajax, Achilles, and Exeter--succeeded in their task. After a sharp engagement that lasted an hour and a half and during which Exeter was crippled, the English task force damaged Graf Spee...
Married. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 68, hawk-faced, publicity-shy Texas oil multimillionaire; and blue-eyed onetime Stenographer Ruth Ray Wright, 41; both for the second time; in Dallas...
...point, the picture makes promises the Air Force can hope to keep. Hero Malden is shown as a man who works an eight-hour day, owns a pretty little ranch house near the base, and sleeps there every night with a mighty attractive wife (Marsha Hunt). He has an automobile, a TV set, beer in the icebox, a pension in prospect, a month's vacation every year, and enough cash in his pocket to finance it. Thanks to his Air Force training, he knows he can walk into a big-pay position in the aircraft industry any time...
...dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki's plotless existence revolve a skin-prickling tiger hunt and Author Godden's evocations of the lush tropical fecundities of Indian jungle country. Rumer Godden is a fastidious craftsman but a trifle hammy. Some of her sentences preen themselves so long before the mirror of sensibility that, like Mooltiki, they never quite carry their weight in sense...
...than last year. There is also an exceptionally large deer population in Vermont this year; some may drift south. The archery season for deer lasts from Nov. 21 until Nov. 27; a combined archery and shotgun deer season lasts from Dec. 2 to Dec. 7. It is illegal to hunt deer with a rifle in Massachusetts...