Word: waterfowl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave after wave of mallards and pintails took off like scrambling fighter planes from their summer bases in Canada. Fanning out over four major flyways (see chart), where great precise Vs of wild geese passed intermittently from dawn to dusk, they headed south. It was the heaviest migration of waterfowl that the U.S. had seen in years. But the shooting was as variable as the weather...
...Fines. In the East last week the air seemed alive with waterfowl. One huge flight winged in and spent the night on saltwater bays and coves inside New York City limits, where shooting is prohibited. Elsewhere in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, however, the twelve-gauge guns began barking, though in the East too hunters were plagued with fair weather...
...Like a shy waterfowl who has hatched out a dragon's egg, I find that I have written a 'best-seller.' 'Unseasonably,' because the time has passed when the event brings any substantial reward. In a civilized age this unexpected moment of popularity would have endowed me with a competency for life. ... As it is, the politicians confiscate my earnings and I am left with the correspondence...
...much to be thankful for. They had made a start in the beaver trade, not trapping but buying skins from the Indians. Dissension in the colony itself had measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter of malnutrition...
...dust storms subsided and the grass commenced growing again. We began to throw out our chests. Among other things, South Dakota has one of the largest gold-producing mines in the world, some of the best agricultural land in the country and without a doubt the best pheasant and waterfowl hunting anywhere. ... We feel that we can walk shoulder to shoulder with any other state in the Union...