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...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...
...once . . . we must disagree with TIME. The current term applying to a number of cats (especially domesticated cats having grown wild) is "pack...
...because their vehicles cannot negotiate the terrain off the roads. Even the movement of our foot soldiers is restricted . .. because supplies must be brought to them by vehicles. Thus, the enemy is able to advance in other areas, infiltrating and outflanking . . . With a proper complement of mounted units, cavalry, pack artillery and pack trains, because of their great cross-country mobility, the enemy infiltration and flank attacks could have been checked or prevented...
...price of each item into a microphone as she places it on a conveyor belt; the second picks up the information on earphones and tots up the total order; the third makes change; the other two pick up the goods at the end of the conveyor belt and pack them...
...prefect of Bome is in a hurry to get rid of some Christians before the newly elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were...