Word: speared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Reusch is a short, slight (5 ft. 2 in., 110 Ib.) Lutheran missionary of 58 who chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days...
...Literally, "the wild beast of the reeds"-the symbol of Egypt. In the original Hebrew the word for wild beast may also mean company; the word for reed may mean spear...
...second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which its pursuer sometimes ate to keep his strength up. After a flight that sometimes lasted several days, the bear finally sank down in mortal exhaustion and submitted to the man's spear...
flagrantly bored and sleeping, a beer bottle still grasped spear-like in his hand...
Complete with spear-carriers and prima donnas, grand opera was launching a mass assault on television. ABC started it with ponderous telecasts from the Metropolitan of Otello and Der Rosenkavalier. Last week, in the first of a series, CBS and Artistic Director Lawrence Tibbett proved that opera could be sprightly as well as tuneful, in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen on the Opera Television Theater...