Word: squirrels
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Called "Chico," he will shoot two shows--straight pool at 7:30 and nine ball at 8:30. Sharp, a fast talker, and fancy shooter, he will display the talents that made losers out of Weenie Beanie, Strawberry, and Squirrel. "Chico" gives Harvard and Radcliffe students an opportunity to learn what "The Hustler" was all about...
...snipers are almost all youngsters -teen-agers, or in their early twenties -who grew up with a squirrel rifle in their hands. Most of them are not many months away from a time when they had to buy their own ammunition. It is part of their philosophy to be miserly with bullets. There are snipers in Viet Nam who have waited as long as six months to fire as few as four or five shots. But then they were sure of their targets, and they killed four or five of the enemy. Last month two Marine "dingers"* killed seven North...
...President Johnson says he chases every peace feeler, just as his little beagle chases a squirrel [Feb. 17]. Every time one comes into view, he either chases it up a tree out of reach or catches it by the neck and shakes it dead. At last the truth about our Viet Nam policy is admitted-in the oblique language of politics, perhaps, but nonetheless what many of us have thought all along...
Durrell (rhymes with squirrel) is as fascinated by queer animals as his brother Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) is by queer people. In previous books, he has sought them out in such odd corners as backwoods Uruguay and Sierra Leone. This time he journeys to the "attic of the world"-Australia-where, owing to the early destruction of the land bridge to Asia, the island continent became an asylum for the primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies...
...this constant stimulation were removed, it would have to be replaced by something else-public works, massive government spending, a shortened week. To some, America's hyped-up consumption seems vaguely immoral as well as untenable in the long run. John Kenneth Galbraith has likened it to the squirrel on a treadwheel. Yet he and other economists agree that there is really nothing wrong with the process, provided that a sufficient share of a growing economy goes into social improvement...