Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lions. One morning around 5:30, while on a bumpy search for elephants, Leifer's party suddenly spotted four lions at the roadside. Even the guide was surprised. He said he had not seen lions in the area for a long time. A member of that pride is pictured on the cover, the second Leifer cat to make it there. In 1981 his photo of a Shaded Silver American Shorthair graced the cover for TIME's look at domestic felines...
...elephants are quite considerate, really," says Hall. There is a cabbage tree next to his house. "The elephants pushed down all of the other cabbage trees here, but they left that one standing, because they did not want it to fall on the house." A pride of seven or eight lions lives on his spread. Hall says that the lions do not have a strong appetite for beef, and besides, if they should kill a cow, it is a tax write-off. Twenty years ago, he did have to shoot a lion, one that had killed 46 of his cows...
Davis remains composed, but his emotion is evident. "We do not deal in Lite," he says with pride...
...little national-pride music, maestro. Thank you. Our very own United States of America (rooty-toot-toot) makes the best TV beer commercials (tantara) in the universe. Nobody else is close, unless it is some race of advertising geniuses in the Crab nebula, and that is not close, and anyway the Crabs do not have John Madden or Mickey Spillane, so forget them...
That may be adequate for Boston's yuppies. But if y'all pride yourselves on being daring and, adventurous, then discover what Cajun really is. Go to its source--the bayous of Louisiana...