Word: boar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
Freshman once put a stuffed wild boar in the shrubbery in the Eliot House courtyard. With the diffused light glimmering in from the Charles and Memorial Drive just striking its foot-long head and six-inch fants, it certainly gave night man John G. Coakley a jolt; but he cautiously stalked the thing and shortly despatched...
Arthur F. (for Frank) Burns rumpled his bushy hair, scrawled a final correction on the document before him, brushed away the shreds of Blue Boar' tobacco which littered his vest, and wearily got up from his desk. It was 2 a.m., and Burns, the chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, had just finished the hardest single job of his life: shaping the President's economic report to Congress (see above...
...into other people's kitchens, writing about everyone from a sausage stuffer to the late Mrs. Henry Ford (in an article on her "Model T cookies"). Her office at the Trib, next door to the testing kitchen, is stuffed with all kinds of sample foods from German wild boar roast, smoked shrimp paste and bite-size saltless matzoth to dehydrated soups and lobster royal ("cooked with a wiggle in its tail...
...without the Berbers, the fierce, proud indigenes of Africa's northwest corner who in the 8th century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...