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Most dangerous is the moment just before the kill. With a single swipe of its claws, a cougar could kill any dog or man that ever trailed him. But the big cats rarely learn. While the dogs are being tied up so that the cougar will not crush them in his death fall, their frenzied barking keeps the beautiful, snarling beast from springing. Some hunters have had to pump as many as 20 bullets into the vicious animal before he fell...
...killed more than 150 cougars, including the dreaded "Big Foot" which harassed the Hoh and Queets River valleys in 1936. Ten years ago the sport almost cost Huelsdonk his life. A surprised female bear made a swipe at his cougar dog, Tom, and sent him yelping 30 ft. through the air. The bear then lunged for the Iron Man. They grappled for minutes, until Tom came back and drew the bear's fury again. Huelsdonk finally reached his 30-30 carbine and killed the beast...
Careerist. In Manhattan, off to prison went John Stoloto, who had been twice nabbed-first as he tried to swipe an umbrella from the District Attorney's auto: next, a few minutes later, as he rummaged through the car of a detective...
Less than three weeks after the raid on Marcus Island, the U.S. Navy took another jab at Japan's eastern defenses. This one was a swipe at the flanks-the southerly Gilbert Islands...
...Japs had managed to land 75-mm. artillery pieces and to register their fire on Henderson Field. Artillery fire and dive-bombing could harass the Japs' guns, but there was only one sure way of silencing them: to go out and swipe the guns...