Word: lynx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rugged Taebaek Mountains, in the DMZ's eastern half, lynx and Korean tigers now roam where few soldiers ever tread. Even movements around the truce village of Panmunjom can be hazardous, not because of stray gunshots, but because a parade of plump pheasants may suddenly appear in the path of a passing Jeep. Says an American officer: "Those birds are so fat they have a hard time getting off the ground. I could set my limit in a day with just a slingshot...
...last year, Rolfe borrowed enough to buy a dazzling gondola, draped in leopard and lynx skins, which he ostentatiously poled through the canals...
...Hampshire country house that he heats entirely by wood. Says he: "My main occupation is splitting billets of maple and birch." Being in good shape helped on his first interview with Ronstadt, when he suddenly found himself jogging up Fifth Avenue at 10 p.m.-she in Frye boots and lynx coat, he in jacket...
...wearing a lynx jacket, for which (as she chugs sturdily toward 72nd Street) she apologizes. Her environmentalist friends have scolded her, she says...
...deliveries from the Soviet Union. With cash provided by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich states, President Anwar Sadat has been turning to Western sources of supply: to France for as many as 150 Mirage 5 fighter jets, Britain for up to 80 Jaguar fighter-bombers and 20 Westland Lynx helicopters, and Italy for electronic equipment. With French and British help, Egypt soon hopes to start constructing its own arms-manufacturing plants. If Congress approves the sale of the C-130s to Cairo, it is likely that Washington will then offer Egypt a range of such combat support items...