Word: boar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
Martin du Gard spent most of World War II in Nice. There, or on his Normandy estate, he still lives and works, "ensconced in his materialism," so his friend Andre Gide has said of him, "like a wild boar in its wallow." Now 68, he is busy on a new novel, which, as usual, he declines to discuss...
...downed chocolate milk and lemonade. He posed with, but refused to kiss, the Toni Twins. "That would be like Jim Folsom," he explained. He laid a hand on the back of a 1,500-lb. grand champion Hereford bull, awarded a silver platter to the owner of a prize boar, and shook 1,650 hands in 55 minutes. At every stop, he was mobbed by autograph seekers. Illinois Republicans could not have been more pleased...
...waist was slung the parang with which his forefathers had chopped off enemy heads before the British stamped the custom out. Knots of hair hung from many hilts, but the main decoration consisted of tassels of pheasant feathers dangling from their sheaths. Charms made of wild boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than 50 years old, like me," he said. "It's still sharp...
...answers were locked in Folsom's enormous bosom; he was off honeymooning in Florida. But Alabama's voters gave one indication of how they were beginning to feel about their boar-brained governor. Last week they soundly defeated him as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention...