Word: loon
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...adapt to the surroundings," he reports. "I spend part of the day splitting firewood; it is satisfying work. I keep thinking about that beautiful lake a mile away that my guide has told me about, where I can watch the animals watering and hear the cry of the loon. Finally, I decide to stroll to the lake in the chill clear air of the evening, deliberately leaving my rifle in the cabin...
...blackbirds, two meadow larks and one curlew-an increase of eleven. However, the curlew has been fading out for years-even before pesticides. As a boy, I heard the curlew's call almost daily-a song of wild and ethereal beauty; a song embodying the loneliness of a loon's call and the mystery of the divine -to hear it was to be stirred to the depths of one's soul...
...horrifying as a storm trooper battering at the door in the night. In this cave of terrified mutants, the judgments of the outside world arrive as abrasive jeers. To savage the mother, the older daughter tells her that she is known to the neighbors as "Betty the Loon." And yet, Zindel reminds us, strong, strange, beautiful flowers spring from such compost heaps. It is a troubling thought, one of the honest and intelligent values of this splendid and tormented play...
Although it had to be moved to Interville Mountain-a "rinky-dink" place in McCollom's opinion-from Loon Mountain because of a dearth of snow. 85 "A" rated slalom men made the competition fierce...
...Warbler of Watergate is a loon...