Word: hunts
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...physical safety was another matter: Indians and wolves were equally feared. In 1632 a fence a mile and a half long was erected around the settlement--hardly a massive fortification, but it did keep the wolves away from the cattle (76 wolves' heads were returned after a single hunt as late as 1696, and many bears were killed until the Revolutionary...
...when Eliotrebuked Gov. Long for failing to address the women in the hall as well as the men. "I am sure that on plantation or town or colony was settled except by the aid of women," Eliot told the governor. Minutes later, though, Eliot added, "The men have to hunt and fish and plough and dig and carry wood and water, but the women must cook and wash and sew and bear and bring up the children...
...Hunt and Mazlish declined to identify the other participants, including at least one Harvard professor, who are not formally associated with the Anderson effort...
Mazlish and Frye also declined to comment on specific recommendations made at the meeting, but they and Hunt said they were disappointed with the lack of response to Anderson's most recent foreign policy speech, which he gave last week at the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago...
...William Vandam, a non-U widower in military intelligence. Vandam's strategy starts with a well-baited hooker. Her name is Elene Fontana (nee Abigail Asnani), a 23-year-old Jewish courtesan who-after the characteristic Follett sexual intermezzos-rises quickly to become the star of the Wolff hunt. One of Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence. Vandam's pursuit is also thwarted...