Word: yak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Interjected the zoo's veterinarian Harry Ninphius, "A yak can take anything and look as though it's enjoying...
...expedition will live on canned goods, supplemented by native mutton, wild rhubarb, yak, and goat milk, and whatever wild fowl, antelope, and wild asses may be shot down...
...city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow him to a chilly land where every countryman goes armed, where the chief fuel is yak dung, where dead bodies are exposed for the vultures to pick clean, where a stuck-out tongue is a friendly greeting...
...baby yak born in the Bronx Zoo was christened "General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...