Word: boar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four evenings a week, when the day's chores are done, they take off over the ridges to school. From Red Knob, five miles away, from Short Bark community, from Tellico Plains, where wild boar hunts are still held in the fall, they hike to the sloping green campus. In a classroom of the main college building, they sit in small groups, divided according to background and ability. Mrs. Frances Cope Murrell, the patient, even-tempered woman who does most of the teaching, moves from one group to another, coaching them through the rigors of long division, watching over...
...Berbers are the indigenous race of North Africa, distinct from and lighter in color than the Arabs who have invaded their lands. Warlike and industrious, the Berbers have never been fully subjugated. Though Mohammedans, they eat wild boar's flesh, drink fig brandy and reverence female saints. Monogamous Berbers buy their wives, but give them more freedom than Arab women enjoy...
General Jonathan M. Wainwright dashed off a quick acceptance when the Boar, Bear & Deer Hunters Club of Bradley County, Tenn. invited him to hunt wild pigs in the Joyce (Trees) Kilmer Memorial Forest...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, after two months of wild boar and gazelle hunting in Iran and the Himalayas,was back home with some wildflower seeds for his Wallowa mountain hideout in Oregon, and some traveler's impressions: "India is bristling with ideas, projects and programs. It reminds me very much of the first term under Roosevelt...
When things eased up in Germany, he relaxed by hunting wild boar in the Black Forest and running his own "ham" radio transmitter at Wiesbaden. He invited his enlisted men to draw all the surplus radio equipment they needed to set up their own stations, often swapped midnight advice with his fellow hams. It was characteristic of his attitude towards his men: he never would step out of his way to make a public show of thoughtfulness, but was willing to rustle up radio gear on their behalf, be responsible for it and sit up late at night telling them...