Word: teal
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ROBERT L. TEAL Berkeley, Calif...
...ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly by driving them into the freezing water, then swimming after them and wrestling them ashore...
...hunters' other favorite ducks-teal, pintail, redheads, canvas-backs, black ducks-the supply will hardly be plentiful, but not worse than last fall. Happily, a late, wet spring helped restore some of the breeding grounds where these species concentrate. To help the mallard, however, hunters will be sharply restricted: no more than three a day along the Pacific flyway, two along the Atlantic, Mississippi and Central routes...
...relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country's cruelty in a single, compelling anecdote about his hosts: they drive along the beaches of the Caspian Sea shooting falcon, sea gulls and teal indiscriminately, then take the wounded birds home for their children to play with...
...teal sheathe, you were the proudest...