Word: nearsightedness
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Bill Hulet's technique on the hunt stems from years of studying the stomachs of his kills to discover the black bear's feeding habits (grass and fir buds in April, crab apples in October). "Some bears turn carnivorous just afore they go into hibernation and go after...
A crack shot, Ruark has given up big-game hunting, explains: "I've just lost the taste for seeing things die." He still rambles off on safaris, photographing the big game and potting birds for dinner. (His barstool story is that his white hunter imitates a lovelorn female rhino...
Much of the book uses reality merely as a springboard toward fantasy; characters may suddenly levitate or turn into werewolves. Also, there are boggy tracts that sound, and no doubt are meant to sound, like ads for Rosicrucianism ("large increments of love are released that are fermenting in the Fertile...
Blend Luck. In Memphis, a uniformed Salvation Army worker had stepped i to a drugstore, ordered a cup of coffee-to-go, and was standing in line waiting to pay for it when a nearsighted customer dropped a quarter into the brew.
Pullover. Near Milan, Italy, a nearsighted locomotive engineer stopped his train for half an hour at a grade crossing because he mistook for a stop signal the red sweater of a motorist halted at the crossing waiting for the train to pass.