Word: raccoon
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...offered bawdy love poems, erotic cartoons-and heart-wrenching returns to his wife and daughter in Mississippi. (Faulkner and Wife Estelle remained married from 1929 until his death 33 years later.) "The South ... was part of the rhythm of his life," says Meta. "He was really at his happiest raccoon or pig hunting with his cronies, the town blacksmith or the drugstore clerk...
...Virginia Slims tennis tournament. Branching out from her on-again off-again romance with Singles Ace Jimmy Connors, Chris had invited the President's middle son to watch the match, played at a school outside Washington. After her easy win, the pair set off for dinner at Rocky Raccoon's, a Washington restaurant featuring country music, and afterward made plans to meet again. No matter that Athlete Evert, 21, earned $362,227 last year, and that her escort has been unemployed since he graduated from Utah State University last May. Gentleman Jack picked...
...eventual worldwide shortages, Gibbons found wild foods in abundance everywhere. (In a vacant lot in Chicago, he noted 15 different varieties.) In later books like Stalking the Good Life (1971), Gibbons outlined organic menus but warned in an interview that the novice forager should shun mushrooms and "start with raccoon pie and cattail salad. They never hurt anyone...
Skillfully exploiting the national nostalgia kick, furriers have promoted new interest in such long-haired favor-, sites of the 1920s and 1930s as lynx, raccoon...
...site of an old gold mine 90 miles north of Los Angeles, chili heads, as fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow the bow off the Bounty. For added flavoring, rival chili heads stirred...