Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THROUGH CHINA'S WALL - Graham Peck-Houghton Mifflin...
...Graham Peck is the 25-year-old son of a Derby, Conn, wire hairpin manufacturer. Ten years ago he was saved from a humdrum life as a hairpin king when he won first prize ($100) in the Procter & Gamble International Soap-Carving Contest with a horse whose anatomy was so mythical that he put a horn on its forehead and called it a unicorn. From then on-through Andover and Yale-he recklessly mixed oils, drinks, metaphors. After graduating from college he set out around the world with $2,000 and a set of paints...
...incident which the book omits : For a while in Mongolia, Author Peck kept a pet chicken in his room. One day, during an epidemic of deadly typhus, Peck felt logy, and noticed pink spots all up & down his left arm. He was sure he had typhus. Deciding to die gallantly, he persuaded a friend to help drink down first a bottle of brandy, then a bottle of vodka. When he awoke next afternoon with no recollection of having done any cooking, he found his room a mess of feathers, blood, picked bones. The pink spots were gone, and Graham Peck...
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's giant-wheeled, 55-ft. "snow cruiser," which is expected to straddle crevasses and galumph over the vast white fields of the Antarctic, ran into a peck of trouble in the crowded purlieus of civilization (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week the North Star was anchored in the Bay of Whales, Little America's port of entry, and the snow cruiser was in sight of the broad antarctic plains. But its troubles were not yet over...