Word: safaried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rochester, Minn, sported a scraggy white beard and a phony name. And, surprisingly, the nom de plumage lasted six weeks. Then last week the secret leaked out; the man back of the brush and calling himself Mr. George Saviers was Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway. After surviving war wounds, safari accidents and the assorted contusions of a life spent emulating the energetic characters in his own novels, Papa Hemingway, 61, had taken sick while on an Idaho hunting trip. Diagnosis: incipient diabetes complicated by high blood pressure...
Over the years, parting with animals became such a wrenching affair for Gerald that he finally decided to collect a zoo of his own. This book is his blithe-spirited account of a six-month collector's safari in Bafut, a mountain grasslands kingdom in the Cameroons in British West Africa...
...authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough T. R. (boisterously acted by Larry Blyden) with a reactionary J. P. Morgan, who remarked magnificently, on hearing that Roosevelt had gone on a safari: "I hope the first lion who sees him does his duty...
Even the politically beleaguered islands of Quemoy and Matsu began to float out of the center of U.S. debate and back to their rightful place in ambiguity along the China coast. The pollsters bustled across the U.S. like beaters on an African safari - and found themselves right where they were before the interruptions, staring into that great cliche of the 1960 campaign, the undecided vote...
Lyndon Johnson swung into the offensive. On his own delegate-hunting safari through the West, he won the loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation...