Word: prowl
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...world, far north of the Arctic Circle, snow falls only in the summer. The rest of the year is too cold for precipitation, for vegetation and, one would suppose, for human life. Yet a few hundred nomadic polar Eskimos prowl the icy region, always shadowed by the imminence of death from cold or starvation. They describe themselves simply as Inuit...
Rutherford Hayes puts in an appearance-as the man who brought the telephone to the White House. Teddy Roosevelt is seen, not as the man who dispatched the Great White Fleet to prowl the world's ports, but rather as an amateur art critic who liked what he saw at the controversial New York Armory Show...
...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...
Meat lust has made the West wild again. Rustlers prowl the prairies in pickup trucks, absconding with unbranded cattle, which they then sell for $100 to $500 a head. Sometimes they kill and dress steers on the spot; at least three of the animals have been slain by bow and arrow. Says California Rancher Gordon Garland: "Cattle theft in the foothills has increased so much in recent months that ranchers are now forced to carry guns to protect their own physical well-being." Another leathery son of the soil advises: "When you catch some slob stealing, shoot...
HOPEFULLY MORE PEOPLE will visit the Leverett House exhibit as it continues through the month of April, although it is admittedly awkward to prowl around the display panels without disturbing the small library's more diligent clientele. The inaccessibility of this fine display of Harvard student work should stimulate people to plan exhibitions on a larger scale around the University. We shouldn't have to wait until our classmates have published or perished to see their achievements...