Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carriers have been wearing furs ever since the mid-18th century, the ministry nonetheless agreed last week not to buy any more skins. What happens when the present supply runs low? Well, there is a company near London that makes synthetic skins for $40 (v. $300 for a good leopard skin and $550 for a tiger), but the bandsmen may not have to stoop to that just yet. "There must be thousands of skins from the old raj days being used as rugs or knocking around in attics," said Colonel Rodney Bashford, director of the Royal Military School of Music...
...found in this exhibit, even though artists of about the same historical period are represented (i.e., Beardsley, Blake). Eugene Delacroix, 19th century French rebel of classicism did not fear losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes of track shoes. His feline groin is striped like a surreal...
...investment banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million. Stans' main concession to contemporary concerns has been to give up his favorite hobby -big-game hunting-for the duration; his wife Kathleen has also forsworn her collection of leopard and cheetah coats...
...great war machine, and there is blood on the hands of Nguyen Hoan, smaller player in the cast of South Vietnam's belligerent charade of democracy. And there is Milton Sacks, who seems far from blood in the recesses of corporate scholarship, but who is the author of the "Leopard Spots" program, a plan for relocating peasants who have been forced from their homes in decentralized concentration camps. And there is blood on the hands of those more important, and blood on the hands of those less important, on the hands of all of us from those times that...
...combined third and first grade class were directed to break into huddles and make plans to act out different animals and toys in a designated room in the house. Three students crawled in a line like train cars while two bobbed their shoulders playing a cat and leopard. To shouts of "We couldn't tell they were in a kitchen" the animals began to pretend to sniff for food in a refrigerator and a shelf above their heads. A second group pantomimed a skunk stamping his foot, and a horse, hyena, duck, pig, and monkey in a farmyard. Three boys...