Word: poacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poacher. In Greeley, Colo., Henry C. van Schaak Jr. explained that he opened fire on a low-flying airplane only because it kept scaring the ducks he was trying to shoot...
Swallowing a large dose of a salubrious river finds, she quickly recovered enough strength to attract a rescuer in a passing lobster-put poacher returning from the day's rounds...
...stand in the rain all night, get into the scrimmage and out again with the bacon by noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck up the road with his automobile and lopped off its head with...
...favorite outdoor sport was chamois hunting in the mountains hovering over the city-where the game poacher has always been a highly respected member of society, and where one of Austria's most important bits of national philosophy originated: Warst net au fig'stie g'n - warst net abag'fall'n (If you hadn't climbed up you wouldn't have fallen down...
Both these books are deep-felt, enthusiastic studies of men and machines in battle; both are written by trained, ob servant storytellers. "Flying Officer X" is H. E. Bates, one of Britain's most talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's most passionate booster, spent several weeks on a British warship before sitting down to write his story...