Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Hunt. The mustang, which helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that...
...would protect them against Government seizure. The editor consented and told his Washington bureau chief, Robert Boyd, to expect a long-distance call. The stranger telephoned Boyd several times, each time offering a hint as to where the secret documents might be found. "It was like a treasure hunt," explained one editor...
...Hurts, doesn't it? It is unfair for those meanies to categorize you and hold all responsible for the sins of a few. Let's do index and insist that medium1, medium2, medium3 hereafter refer to us as the South1, the South2 and the South3. MRS. J.L. HUNT Brunswick...
...headed Standard Oil and now spends his time at golf or bridge. Or the alumnus in this class who managed the financial affairs of Harvard before George Bennett got his grasping hands on the portfolios. Or the one who finds the greatest pleasures in life at the Myopia Hunt Club. Or the one who boasts that his granddaughter helped elect James Buckley Senator of New York. Or the countless number of alumni who counted out their years at stockholders' meetings or brokerage houses or corporation law firms...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...