Word: shikari
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...attend an Ivy League institution, and I am surrounded by people who devoted their high school years to trying to get into Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Does an Ivy League degree necessarily equate with success? Education is priceless no matter which college you are able to attend. ALEFIYAH YUSUF SHIKARI Darien...
...H.M.S. Shikari, one of the oldest destroyers in the navy, "fell the honor of being the last ship to leave Dunkirk." On June 3, at 3:40 a.m., she pulled away, with "the German machine guns stuttering in the streets." Naval experts had expected to evacuate 30,000 men at most. The actual total was nearer...
...headquarters in Asia are at Singapore where he has one of the largest collections in the world. There he stores his animals while he goes in search for more. If he cannot buy the one he wants from a native who has already captured it, he turns shikari...
...hunter) and goes into the jungle to get the specimen himself. In this way he obtained the only veritable man-eating tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed...
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