Word: hyena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcity of water and foliage in the wasteland has always sharply limited its animal population. But the recent exploitation of the desert has added to the environmental pressures on wildlife. Israeli officials estimate that the hyena population, about 200 in the 1950s, had been reduced to less than 100 by 1970, largely because of encounters with speeding automobiles. Wolves faced a more subtle adversary; while raiding the garbage dumps of kibbutzim (collective farms), they often consumed fatal doses of pesticides. The otter population declined because of pollution of the desert's few rivers, while the Nubian ibex fell...
...hands of Freddie the undertaker. The shmoos rolled over dead and oven ready for hungry hoomins. Hulking Hairless Joe and his faithful Indian sidekick, Lonesome Polecat, dispensed hair-curling batches of Kickapoo Joy Juice. Dogpatchers went calling on the snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman. Moonbeam McSwine wallowed happily in the mud and tried unsuccessfully to ensnare Abner with her buxom charms. As Capp once said of his curvaceous creations: "Anyone who likes small bosoms -let 'em read Orphan Annie...
...belittled gambling revenue as less than 5% of state revenues. The reason legalized wagering is catching on is the ever-increasing costs of government. If you want to know the importance of the money gambling provides, just cut the budget by that amount. The screams would drive a hyena to cover...
...Doonesbury is not the first strip to make funnies a political forum. A generation ago, Al Capp's Li'l Abner was peopled with Senators, robber barons and other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep...
...Penny. The Mosley brand of National Socialism never became more than a barnacle on a political system renowned for its tolerance and stability. He was condemned by his peers as a betrayer of his class, not to mention a "Fascist hyena." Mosley had blown any chance for power before he was 40. But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments. Robert Skidelsky's generous biography appears at a time when people everywhere are longing again for order and authority. England is swirling dangerously close to the drain of economic ruin...