Word: litteral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CIVIL WAR. Like newsmen in the 1860's passengers ride to the battle lines in white, horse-drawn correspondents' wagons, get caught in a blistering crossfire. Plastic corpses-eight in grey, eight in blue-litter the battlefield; farmhouses burn; cannon balls seem to plop within inches of the customers. Crossfire is Freedomland's favorite device: the "Buccaneers" concession sends paying guests on a port tack between two fiercely battling pirate ships; and throughout the Wild West, Indians are forever blazing away at anything that moves, usually past the noses of tourists...
...cats-the lion. This book was written to prove that the principle-don't hurt cats and they won't hurt you-is sound for lions even in the lion's own domain. Unlike most books about pets, which can only be classed with disposable Kitty Litter, this one is not sentimental. The subject, a female felis leo somaliensis, is too big for that. This great creature was the pet and pride of Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife, and she has communicated the delight and wonder of life with the lioness experienced...
...summer school. His job in the Northern Frontier Province of Kenya was to enforce a doctrine of apartheid between man and beast-to see that men did not kill the animals and, as far as possible, that the animals did not kill the men. Elsa was one of a litter of three cubs orphaned when George Adamson shot their mother. As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. Kenya, to join...
...Page, whose English is baser than basic ("Crapola! Crapola! Crapola!"). As a roman a clef, or key-to-reality-novel, the book unlocks some fairly intriguing trade gossip. But as literature. View from the Fortieth Floor lacks a consistent viewpoint, simply upends a wastebasket of facts and scans the litter like tea leaves of doom...
Resting up at Victoria Falls. Billy was asked by a British movie company filming a life of Missionary-Explorer David Livingstone to ride by the crocodile-infested Zambezi River in a Livingstone-style litter of poles borne by four natives. "I've been trying to keep my weight down," Graham explained later, "but I was too much for one of the bearers, who buckled and broke his pole. I came within an inch of joining the crocodiles...