Word: safari
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...serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
...born. Since the Navy took over the yacht for war purposes, the fabulous Gene McDonald has lived ashore and lumped it, a subdued family man who sticks to a couple of beers, plays with the children while his wife studies Russian and music. His most strenuous recent struggle: a safari last week to Washington to row with the FCC over FM wave lengths...
...Indian arrow poison curare (rhymes with safari) is sometimes used in abdominal surgery and in spastic paralysis, to relax taut muscles. But doctors have not generally liked it much, because an overdose will kill a patient...
Into Paris trooped elegant Alfred Duff Cooper and his exactress wife, Lady Diana, heading a safari of secretaries, clerks and baggage-bearers. They took one look at the Embassy on the rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. The high-ceilinged building had been turned into a warehouse by British subjects, who stored so much furniture in it that the floors will have to be re-enforced before the building can be used again. The Ambassador and his lady moved into a suite at the Hotel Barclay...
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...