Word: stalked
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...that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting," in which the entire group--women, men and children--drive the animals over a cliff or into a net or cul-de-sac. The Blackfoot and other Indians hunted...
Which is not to say that assassin is a frivolous activity. It has long been known that games are educational for offspring of all species. Games like assassin teach fledglings how to stalk prey, spot the enemy, devise an escape plan and avoid the crossfire. Harvard students translate: stalk run-away food at Annenberg, spot your professor at the Grill and find your way to the bathroom...
...games of Assassin, students are assigned other students to stalk and "kill" using toy dart guns or other harmless "weapons." The game is still played at several Houses, as well as by students at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...front of us waits five seconds before moving at a newly green traffic light, or as we wring our hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls. We finger-stalk. We struggle to remember password after password, half-recognizing that our information--our data, our ideas--could suddenly vanish if either we or our computers have a lapse in memory...
...choir took the show to intermission in overalls with an African fabric swatch reminiscent of a cummerbund under black suit coats. Their singing, deeper than Widener and friendlier too, inclusive of both Jesus and the "I just might take a nip" phenomenon, was authentically folk, seemingly grown on a stalk independent of any folk revivals or Newport festivals...