Word: leopardize
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...sock and bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent varlet who does not know his place. But for the most part he has an easy time. He just stands...
...jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought her to the Paris Zoo, looked at her body and wept...
...Girl. Explosion inspectors found the demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...
...leopard dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard...
...leopard had his chance-and, as far as the arrow was concerned, he won. But the penalty of victory was death. After the wounds he inflicted upon Mr. White and the two natives have been healed at Nairobi, Archer White will return to the jungle for six months more of chance-taking, chance-giving, in the style of the Battle of Crecy...