Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health. We've had luck with the heifers and a couple of young ones brought $325 apiece last week at a sale. We're prepared for winter-we've opened the silo and it's filled with the whole stalk of corn, ear and all. There's plenty of hay in the barn...
...Congress to build the Moslem League and to work for a separate government for Indian Moslems. The walls of his meeting halls blazed with such slogans as: "Make the blood of slaves boil with the force of faith!" and "Make the small sparrow fight the big hawk!" He would stalk into meetings wearing his "political uniform"-native dress with a black astrakhan cap-and whip the Moslems into a frenzy. Sometimes, in his fury, his monocle would pop out of its socket. After meetings, he would go home, change to Western clothes and be again the suave Western lawyer...
...railroad workers were allowed to strike, he said, "hunger would stalk the United States, the whole political and economic system would be upset. . . and our influence in the world would be a laughingstock." There were limits to how far any law could be used when the public welfare was at stake. A railway strike would create "an extreme situation which society is not required to tolerate...
...Geoffrey Household is an Englishman with a quiet gift for telling tales. He made a success in 1939 with a story about a big game hunter's attempt to stalk Hitler with telescopic sights. After that book, Rogue Male,* he went to the Near East as an intelligence officer, seeing action in Greece and intrigue in Syria and Palestine...
After centuries of control by men, the world is still seared by ever more frequent and violent wars and threats of war. Fear, oppression, poverty, disease and crime still stalk abroad...