Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defenders had been too civilized for this sort of thing. They stuck to the pillboxes along the highways, defended the airfields, stood at the bridges, guarded the cities, gallantly did everything the manuals said to do. Many of them knew how to hunt the fox, shoot grouse, stalk tigers; but none of them had been hunted by animals before. They were confused by this enemy, and General Pownall's successor (who was secretly appointed early this week*) would have the job of unconfusing them, of inventing countermeasures, of applying them in desperate haste...
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable to get his signature to a faked confession that the act was an attempted assassination with the knowledge of the British Government, the Nazis fling him into the ravine and leave him for dead. He escapes to England...
...Bronx is a luxuriant weed patch on the landscape of U.S. speech, and Mr. Kober knows its every leaf and stalk. Damon Runyon thinks that Kober has "the keenest ear for human speech of any writer since Ring Lardner." In one way Kober tops Lardner, for Lardner's baseball players talked pretty much alike, whereas there are distinct differences-some obvious, some subtle-in the talk of Bella and Max as against that of Ma and Pa Gross...
...McNicol's eleven lost decisively to the Green last November, it would seem that Coach Boston is in for an afternoon of watching his players absorb another licking. Should the primarily latent potentialities of the Yardlings come to light, it may be a sadly disillusioned group of Indians who stalk back to the Hills this evening...
...stylists could not make sense of it. Wrote Carmel Snow, in Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful indentation and extends both up and down, to give you a firm lithe line like the stalk of a flower. Sometimes the effect is achieved by a yoke over the hips, or the placing of pockets. . . . The new suits accomplish it by longer jackets...