Word: poachings
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...flight, its wingspread is seven feet; on the ground, it walks haughtily through marshes in search of frogs and snakes, or performs its pre-mating dance with rapid grace. It is an aloof, snobbish aristocrat which sticks with its own family, fights off other cranes who come to poach on its hunting grounds...
...lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even by some doctors...
...late start. She was 52 and a widow when she wrote her first cookbook. It began in a small way when she made up a list of recipes for her children, who were about to be married. "I realized," says Mrs. Rombauer, "they didn't know how to poach an egg." This sudden realization turned into a privately printed book that sold 3,000, copies, assured many an egg of perfect poaching. Mrs. Rombauer's expert, explicit manner of writing recipes is nearly baffle-proof. Of the various edi tions, over 12,000 have been sold...
...United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike the security of U. M. W. and C. I. 0. would be equally endangered...
Early men were grouped into small hordes which had their own hunting grounds and, for self-preservation, intense feelings of solidarity. Members of other hordes were alarmingly different in customs, speech, appearance. In addition, these outsiders might poach on the hunting ground, steal roots and fruits. Hence it was an act of merit to kill them. As the art of hunting improved and methods were found of storing food, famines diminished and the hordes grew larger. Small, weak hordes were exterminated. The increase in size and decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations...