Word: safari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a 14-lb., double-barreled elephant rifle, Klein made hunting history. Together with another white hunter named Leslie Simpson, he led a safari of man-drawn oxcarts into virgin territory in Tanganyika, discovering what later became known as the "Lion Pasture," the best lion country in the world...
Hunting de Luxe. Rich sportsmen, who paid $2,000 a month for Klein's services, remember him best for streamlining the safari. He blazed motor paths to first-class hunting grounds, organized the East African Guides Association to staff his fleets of cars and trucks. Barring the chase itself, his expeditions became as comfortable as weekend fishing trips...
...fantastic poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels" was Dr. Harold R. Griffith's first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Montreal doctor tells how he changed his mind, pioneered the use of curare to relax tense muscles during operations...
Submarines of Britain's Royal Navy have sunk more than 1,250,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean alone since war began. As commander of His Majesty's Submarine Safari, and other submarines, handsome, whimsical, young (29) Lieut. Richard Barklie Lakin, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., has had his share of kills. In his words, this is part of his story as he told it in New York City last week...
...four whose minds were broadened were New York's James M. Mead, Georgia's Richard B. Russell, Maine's Ralph O. Brewster, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge. The fifth member of the Senatorial safari, Kentucky's backslapping "Happy" Chandler, had stopped off in Hollywood to visit his family, with no indication yet whether his mind had been broadened...