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...colonel: "The enemy has made hard guys out of his Koreans. We've made softies out of ours." Said a U.S. correspondent: "We have so overarmed, over-equipped and over-coddled the South Koreans that now they wouldn't think of going into battle without fur-lined parkas, prophylactic kits and the latest edition of supercomics...
...compelling was the Band's music that from several doorways came hastily-clad Princetons escorting girls in negligees and fur coats. Then, as the dates of the Band members stared through their fingers in disbelief, a nude Tiger in a highly agitated state appeared on a fourth floor ledge and shouted a greeting to the visitors...
...bleak, rainy, gale-swept afternoon last week, several thousand Highlanders gathered at the little village of Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Queen Elizabeth, in a fur-trimmed coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into the very arteries of Scotland's being." Then she pulled the lever that set the Loch Sloy power plant in operation. As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled...
...right of the entrance to the Zoological Museum. His epitaph reads: "the species has been reduced through persecutions, as it yields rich oil . . ." A Siberian Sea Otter looks out from the next glass case. "This species is now on the verge of extinction at the hands of the fur hunters...
...stuffed Bengal tiger, his stripped fur bristling, has a notorious past. "Many districts of India have been terrorized by this species which has acquired a taste for human flesh, but the number has been much reduced at present." It is unclear whether the reduction was in tigers or districts. A lion across the aisle glares from his glass cage. "In the wild state lions usually live up to their reputation of daring and ferocity. They prey upon large animals, especially zebras and antelopes, and in occasional instances have acquired the man-eating habit...