Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians have no special tricks for keeping warm. Every man wears a shapka, a fur (muskrat, rabbit, squirrel, fox or Persian lamb) hat with ear flaps. Everyone wears warm boots; the best are the felt valenki favored by villagers. People who work outdoors wear, of course. Soviet Union suits. After a long spell in the cold, they raise spirits with a stiff jolt of vodka and a hunk of fatback...
...primitive a method of doing what wealthy Italians have done for years: illicitly exporting their capital to European countries with stronger currencies. Concern over Italy's perennial political instability, fear of a Communist takeover and a national predilection for tax dodging have led bankers and businessmen to squirrel away an estimated $35 billion abroad since 1945, of which about one-third is illegally exported...
...very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grown and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity...
...white men were murdered last December, and more than half of the 500 original settlers have returned home.) When no hostile Indians are in sight, Boone forages for food, but friends claim that he is too softhearted to shoot small animals. Instead, he prefers a trick called "barking off squirrels." Says one Kentucky taleteller: "The whiplike report resounded through the woods. Judge of my surprise when I perceived that the ball had hit the piece of bark immediately beneath the squirrel and shivered it into splinters. The concussion killed the animal and sent it whirling through...
...down-stairs and crouches at the end of the hall, opposite Caldwell, trying for a final shot. She has stopped conducting and is listening to the singers. She gazes around the hall till her eyes meet Rick's and rest in a lethargic stare. He is frozen like a squirrel near a human but he doesn't shoot. He is waiting for her to perform again. After five minutes he gives up and walks out--he can't be late for his next assignment...