Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that birds are scarce. South Dakota alone has more than 14 million pheasants, or something like 70 for every hunter. They just make monkeys out of men with guns. A pheasant will flush 50 yds. out of range, lie frozen while the hunter blunders past inches away, or run maddeningly on ahead, never flying, never presenting a shot. And when a bird is killed, the hunter may never find it among the tangles and hedgerows. In South Dakota last week, longtime Pro Quarterback Bobby Layne and seven friends managed to hit 31 in an afternoon without...
...this trip, he tells himself, I am going to bag one enchantress for the zoo and the other one for myself. But before he can bag one for the zoo he must flush the elusive beast; and before he can bag the other one for himself he must somehow elude the vigilance of her mate (Jack Hawkins), another great white hunter and a mean old man besides. "Every animal," he snarls, "is entitled to kill in order to keep what belongs...
...notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad. At Hue, where the whole uproar began when government troops killed nine Buddhist demonstrators, the Defense Secretary listened to a half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles away. Then he visited a field post that had been under fire only the day before. Inspecting a pile of Viet Cong weapons, McNamara spied a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, remarked, "I suppose that's Chinese," was embarrassed to learn...
...British, having conscientiously freed most of their colonial subjects, now feel entitled to view with horror the spectacle of Birmingham police turning loose police dogs and fire hoses on protesting Negroes. But in the flush days of Queen Victoria's empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British authorities when a handful of Jamaicans revolted...
...that, though all modesty and reserve were banished from the transaction of those pleasures, good manners and politeness were inviolably observed; here was no gross ribaldry, no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls." After enjoying many another "well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices," Fanny finds true love and kisses the oldest profession goodbye...