Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson and family were opening presents around the tree in Spaso House Christmas morning when the phone rang. It was the Soviet Foreign Ministry, asking the ambassador to drop by Andrei Gromyko's office. An hour later Ambassador Thompson received a letter from Premier Khrushchev, assuring President Eisenhower that Khrushchev would be glad to go to a summit meeting in Paris next spring, just so that he could get back to Moscow in time for May Day. The same message also went to the British and French...
...dark wall of foliage opens, and a hail of spears comes streaming through. Ambush! The native bearer next to Flynn falls dead with a spear through his belly, and Flynn is struck in the foot by a poisoned arrow. Not a whit dismayed, the hero leaps behind a tree, whips out his revolver and starts firing. With the first shot he brings down one of the nasty savages. The rest of them melt into the jungle...
...when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well, I'm tough, and I'm the best there is." He is probably right...
...vicious and tenacious. The cattle dog in 'em gives 'em enough sense to snap and get out of the way. You ought to have spotted coats, too. Bears are so nearsighted they can see a spotted dog better, and that will make them quicker to tree or turn to fight...
...Bill Hulet can still lope for 15 miles on a single chase. When he trees a bear after dark, Hulet will take to a tree himself to wait out the night rather than risk a shot that might hit a leaping dog. Hulet has even gone to earth after a bear, pulling his dogs out of the tunnel by their tails until he could get into the hole for the shot at a range...