Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trained from childhood to fight and hunt, a steppes nomad was accustomed to using his eyes to a degree unimaginable among modern city dwellers. Every twitch of a deer's alarmed head, every gathering of muscle, gust of wind or sprouting of vegetation could be a clue in the work of survival. So it is not surprising that Scythian art?both the objects they made for themselves in the 7th-6th centuries B.C., and the ones they later had made for them by Greek metalsmiths?was supremely visual: accurate observation combined with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered...
...image as China's man of destiny, and the new Asia so ardently expected by Americans failed to materialize, Chiang found himself abandoned by the Truman Administration. That placed Chiang at the center of an unhappy chapter in postwar U.S. history: the hate-filled witch hunt for those who "lost China...
...there are some 1,500 varieties of the metal fencing, used for over a century to keep cattle from destroying farm lands. Early manufacturers created a wide variety of prongs, prickers, stickers and other barbs. An expert can easily distinguish a brand known as the Dodge Rowell from, say, Hunt's Double Plate Lock Link. Prices vary according to the age, condition and variety of the wire, and range from giveaways to more than $100 for an 18-in. segment. Rare varieties like the Hunt could...
Huntsman's "A" boat will have Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Janet Mazur at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Roxanne Malenbaum at four, Mary Hunt at three, Marsha Cline at two, Gish Jen in the bow, and Barbara Pearce...
...best collections of falcons in the world) and the desert life. In earlier years he liked nothing better than to visit tribes in the desert and engage them in a favorite Bedouin contest, camel-milk drinking; he won more often than not. He used to hunt big game in Africa and India, and decorated the walls of his palace in Riyadh with elephant tusks and tiger heads; he also founded a local zoo. But he curtailed many of his activities after undergoing open-heart surgery in Cleveland three years ago. In his unassuming way, Khalid, the father of seven daughters...