Word: safaried
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...safari had as its objective the testing of special food provided by the Fatigue Lab for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and sleeping bags, air mattresses, and tents for the Alpine division of the Army. Although bad weather and poor climbing conditions harried the expedition, the Army equipment met the rigid test...
...Tanganyika he sketched a woman who had authentically eaten two of her young and he made a drunken safari with Big Boy which lasted only as long as the liquor. He killed one lion, with extreme lack of pleasure. The beaters howled and threatened until they were given candy. Back in the hotel lobby "dying men, full of fever and Scotch, [sat] reading the stale London Times...
...Crown had been prepared for this defense. Professional Hunter J. A. Hunter testified that three weeks after the murder he had taken Sir Jock and Lady Broughton on an eight-day safari. Said Hunter Hunter: "Sir Delves shot several small antelope. He shot one lion with a heavy double-barreled rifle, . . . walked seven miles a day stalking game, . . . never appeared fatigued. . . . He also helped to pull the dead lions aboard a lorry...
...Crosby-Hope-Lamour duet is on the road again, this time in a safari through Zanzibar. Crosby, who dishes out corn by the carful, is hampered by a raft of second-rate tunes, but fits nicely with the flimsy-acting, fully-dressed La Lamour...
...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...