Word: rothenberg
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Assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, Rothenberg spent the summer snaring unclaimed feathered wanderers and retaining the bones. "There was a good feed in it occasionally," he recalls with relish...
...trip home through Egypt, Palestine, England, and Wales, flying denizens of all these places found their way into the Rothenberg game bag, including his largest and most valuable specimen...
...Nile, he came across a water carrier consuming the remains of a large Ibis, a North African heron who sports a magnificent bone. A crocodile had beaten the fellahin to the Ibis feast, and the native was about to attack the remains with a large knife, when Rothenberg stayed his hand with "fellow, spare that bone...
...moment, the ossuary expert recalled yesterday, the man looked as if he was going to probe Rothenberg for his wishbone, but this murderous impulse was assuaged with a little cash and the prize joined the collection...
...this time, said Rothenberg, his brother had been contributing to the harvest from the Carribean area where he was stationed during...