Word: pheasants
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...hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...early-morning canter on his chestnut-colored Arabian horse Kebar, but has recently been forced to take up golf because all his friends "got too old" to ride. A hunter who used to go after mountain goats, moose and grizzlies, he now limits himself to smaller game such as pheasant and quail. He gets a lot of excitement out of it. When the birds rise, the general is likely to shoot all over the lot, yelling, "Artillery on the left flank, charge!" Farmers who let him hunt on their property are often rewarded; their children get a choice of toys...
...just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments...
...gleaming retriever sat quivering with expectancy as the shotguns shattered the stillness of the misty morning in Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...
...like an uncoiling spring, the dog dashed for the bird that fell behind him. Gingerly he nuzzled it, rolling the bird a bit so that he could pick it up without crushing it, raced back to his handler and dropped the unruffled pheasant into his outstretched hand. With a nod from his handler, he crashed into the brush and retrieved the second bird...