Word: tusker
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...contribution in Africa has too often been merely a more efficient method of killing. Hanley's solitary reflections have taught him that there is really no satisfying man's greed, lust and appetite for novelty. In independent Kenya, where he returns to observe, only the Tusker beer seems to be the same. Many of his friends are gone, the game is scarcer and, as Hanley had noticed in much of East Africa, "the cement mixers are massing on the horizon...
...with Grechko in Moscow six years ago. "I was just pulling his leg," says H.H.H., but Grechko took him at his word. So off he went to the Defense Ministry's game preserve, and when the fusillade ended, Humphrey was wondering what to do with his 154-lb. tusker. "If anyone wants some boar meat, I've got some," he offered cheerfully. The choice carcass was delivered to the U.S. embassy...
...find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted by Scott's Borana tracker, turned aside. Scott finally crept close enough to aim between the elephant's eyes. But his admiration for the handsome old tusker dulled his urge to kill. He shot high, the old bull crashed off, and Colonel Scott returned to the States, well content that the big one got away...
...circumference of its footprint. In the middle of the afternoon he caught sight of his prey in ten foot elephant grass and drew a bead with his .256 rifle. The first shot hit between the elephant's oar and eye and as the animal crumpled to the ground, another tusker charged from the grass. A charging elephant is an impossible shot because of the thick skull covering the front of its head, so all Sewall could do was to hit it in the mouth, merely giving the beast a head-ache...
...another mammal-like family, the herbivorous "two-tusker," or dicynodont, the Harvard party obtained a number of good skulls and skeletons. These peaceful lizards, six feet or so in length, were among the commonest reptiles in the Triassic period, but were rapidly killed off, probably by their meat-eating cynodont relatives and other carnivorous forms...