Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...engaging bachelor with a string of love affairs behind him (one with Actress Adriana Asti, who played the lead in his first two films), Bertolucci loves to prowl through art galleries, and has stuffed his small flat in a Rome apartment hotel with records and books. "Literature was the past that I had to overcome and contradict with something," Bertolucci has said, "and that something was the cinema. If I had to talk about authors who formed me, I would say Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Chandler and Hammett." Another, even more perceptible influence might be Freud. Bertolucci went into psychoanalysis...
...court. If convicted, offenders will be fined up to $1,000 a day, of which the complainant may be awarded a bounty of as much as 50%. More important, the city is spending $800,000 to hire and equip a noise-abatement staff. Starting next week, twelve inspectors will prowl the city with sensitive decibel counters, ready to slap violators with $500 fines on the spot...
SUDDENLY, THERE was something sweet and fetching, like magnolias, in the air. Julian magic was on the prowl. His eyelashes purring above the gentle, precise line of his pawing humor as he preached the virtues of being FMBC. Bond's playful political evangelism spread its sticky web. An elegant, feline charisma was at work...