Word: pelted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roly-poly Dutchman named Adrian Pelt left his job as Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. to become U.N. Commissioner in Libya, took a staff of experts to work with him. A provisional assembly of 60 Libyans-20 from each province-meeting under the U.N.'s wing, decided that the country should be a federal monarchy, drafted its constitution, and planned elections. Without argument, the assembly settled on a King-Sayid Mohammed Idris el Mahdi el Senussi, Emir of Cyrenaica, spiritual and political leader of the devout and powerful Moslem Order of the Senussiya, and in his own right...
...second prizewinner, Rhys Caparn, 41, models nothing but animals. Her Animal Form, an inquisitive mammal with only a suggestion of a head and a pelt flecked with green and gilt, was derived from wild cattle she saw at the Bronx Zoo. The remaining prizes went to Chicagoan Abbott Pattison for his robot-like Striding Man and to Pennsylvanian Joseph Greenberg for a sturdy but graceful...
...athletes looked only a wee bit too athletic, being endowed with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...
...hear Donald S. Dawson tell it, his record was as clean as the fur of a royal pastel mink. But Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright thought he detected some spots on the pelt...
This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...