Word: stalking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading on the new exchange will be conducted around posts for each of the commodities handled, which will include raw jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags. President of the market...
...them are fanatics. When they do not want to send their children to the government schools, they burn the schoolhouses. When a hot summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...lions aren't so hard to picture," interposed Mr. Johnson. "They are muscle-pound and while fast in a sprint, tire quickly. After a heavy meal, also, they are slow and easy to stalk...
...fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society...