Word: stalked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in a while he emerged-unkempt but clear-eyed, a prospector's pack on his back, a notched pistol in the homemade holster on his hip-to stalk into town for grub. People left him severely alone: he had dropped a running rabbit at 100 yards with that pistol. They called him "King of the Gulch...
...many other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...
...knows how Cora Hind arrived at her precise estimates, but one of her Free Press colleagues has described her method: She would "stop her car, march into a field, spin around three times with her eyes shut, and grab a stalk of wheat...
They must learn to catch, kill, dress, cook their own meat. They must know how to stalk, unseen, in woods, fields, mountains. If a man is spotted on his first stalking practice, he is orally warned. On the second, a blank round is fired at him. On the third, a live bullet spats close by him. Said a onetime Commando officer now on duty in the U.S.: "It certainly teaches people quickly...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...