Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he has promised the Canadian government that no adult musk ox will be killed in the process, the job of oxnapping promises rich yields in exercise and excitement. At the moment, Teal plans to release a set of dogs to scatter the musk-ox herd. Expert ropers will then try to lasso and tie up the adults, and after that a group of strong young men will run down, hog-tie and crate the eight lucky calves...
...close friends at college was William T. Reid, Jr. '01, former football and baseball star and one-time football coach. Last year Smith requested that when he died Reid should scatter his ashes into "a river flowing into the sea" while reading Tennyson's "Crossing...
...only child, Ann Francis portrays all the scatter-brained qualities of a college graduate. Heading for a career in industrial design, she plans to go to Switzerland. Then within three minutes she falls in love ("like I was drowning") with one of her professors, elopes, and spends the rest of the film getting mad at him. Meanwhile, her parents and the professor's family chase after the couple to prevent marriage and, in the end, encourage it. Very confusing indeed, but never before have two people eloped twice in the same picture...
...knocked down half a dozen attackers before he was laid low by a flying tackle. His assailants jumped on him, pounded his head with a stone. By the time the police arrived, 20 minutes after the melee began, the heavily outnumbered dissidents & friends had dealt enough telling blows to scatter most of their Communist adversaries...
...These Simple Things." Last week Professor Arberry finished a new translation, this time putting the quatrains into verse. When the Arberry Rubdiydt finally appears, connoisseurs will find the old Omar quite changed. For Quatrain No. 1 ("Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night. . ."), readers will find...