Word: squirrel
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...Oxford, Miss. Eagle published a public notice in turgid prose. Text: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels. Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these. These woods are a part of the pasture used by my horses and milk cow; also, the late arrival will find them already full of other hunters. He is kindly requested not to shoot either of these." The advertiser: Oxford's own, only Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner...
...deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson Parkway...
...worn, long-suffering patsy for Jimmy's tirades, with no vices or bitcheries to balance his, and no problems except Jimmy. In their brief moments of loving communion, Mr. and Mrs. Porter like to pretend that he is a jolly super bear and she a bushy-tailed squirrel--an odd and embarrassing touch of A. A. Milne...
Included in the program were German Composer Hans Werner Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch...
...First Baseman Roy ("Squirrel") Sievers, 32, leading home-run slugger in Senators' history with 159 home runs in five years. Back and arm injuries have held his homer production to 10, but now he is in shape and at full power...