Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dale Crawford will clear $11 on each of the horses he brings in, not much profit for a month of grueling work. He has written to President Reagan, as he did to Jimmy Carter, suggesting a partial return to the days of old, when hunters could stalk horses and sell them to meat factories. "As it is," he says, "thousands of taxpayers' dollars are being poured down the drain." But out on the Colorado range, matching wits and stamina with the proud mustangs, the bottom line seems a faraway concern. "The excitement of bringing those horses in," says Crawford...
Fraser and Sacks stalk around the kitchen table, glaring at each other throughout much of the first act. They balance each other's performances: unfortunately, both take most of this act to warm up. When they finally click in their roles the show quickly gains impact. Fraser moves with the uncertainty of an old man, his hands shaking as he presses back his hair with habitual nervousness, his feet shuffling as he constantly paces back and forth, trying to understand his life and, especially, his oldest...
...guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with the guys, but he's never out of control. The scout motto of "Be Prepared" has become a compulsion, and he seems too ready. It smacks...
Southern Russia and the Ukraine have sweltered through the hottest summer on record: wheat and corn have withered on the stalk. In addition, the weather played a cruel trick on farmers. When the grain was maturing and needed rain, the skies were cloudless. But as harvest time approached and dry weather was needed to reap the crop, thundershowers drenched the land. Corn, which is used widely for livestock feed, was badly affected in the flowering stage last month when it most needed moisture. Moreover, the unusual heat accelerated the growth of soybeans and barley so that everything...
...Clark fame), who took him along on a primitive steamship that pushed its way up the Missouri for 2,000 miles. Catlin returned by canoe with only two companions, clambering bluffs to sketch vistas, parlaying with chiefs to paint their portraits, draping wolf skins over his shoulders to stalk grazing buffalo on his hands and knees...