Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just last week a lion hunter in the Verde Valley told about a young coyote that joined up with his pack of hounds in a lion hunt. When one old hound got a bellyful of such impudence, he turned on the interloper and chased him into the bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the old hound had rejoined the hunt, the young coyote was on his tail again, thus proving that he was set on learning the trade, and he knew that he could learn more from an old experienced dog than from a young...
Young Pierre Couturier, son of the miller of Montbrison in the Loire valley, hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...
...reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the State Department-Yalta . . . Dumbarton Oaks . . . San Francisco. "Yea," he trumpeted, "though I walk through the valley of death I shall not fear, for I am with Alger Hiss...
...Bridges family lives alone on a ranch in an isolated valley of the Sierra Nevada at the turn of the century. One night, during the first snow of the year, one of the sons awakes in the bunkhouse to hear the cattle crying far out in the storm. Subsequently he and one of his brothers ride out to investigate; a few hours later his body is carried back to the ranch slung to his horse. His brother remains in the mountains to hunt down the killer...
...existence. However, the author never makes it clear, or even partially clear, what this symbol is supposed to mean. Does it exist only in the minds of the men who fear it, or does it represent a malignant spirit which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black cat is only literary device for effectively creating a ghostly mood to overhang the Bridges family's internal strife. I don't think that ws the original idea...