sambur

The sambur never browsed higher than halfway up the slopes, either.

The sambur scattered at the sound of the flitter.

A few sambur had scattered at the sound of the rotors, but some had not, and that bothered me.

The name is also spelled sambur, or sambhur.

But Dr. Sambur said he had shared the information as part of a deliberate negotiating strategy.

"The cost going forward is significantly less than the $250 million everyone is talking about," Mr. Sambur said.

"This is just not a viable option," Mr. Sambur said of the overhaul proposals.

Hamilton and an attendant stalking sambur.

Elephants and sambur.

Moreover, Mr. Sambur dismissed the notion that the old KC-135's could be overhauled.

The tiger and the sambur may drink together at the same pool, for there is a sanctity observed by many animals at the jungle water hole.

"Our air domination is taken for granted," Mr. Sambur said, "but it is the key for everything else on the battlefield."

Dr. Sambur's statements were an opening shot from the Air Force in what promises to be a heated Congressional debate over the plan.

Dr. Sambur sent the Air Force's request for quick approval of the aerial tanker plan to the four committees that control military spending.

"New tankers are a critical need," said Marvin R. Sambur, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisitions.

Dr. Sambur added that "delaying until January will cause harm to the Air Force and Boeing."

In a telephone interview, Dr. Sambur described them as "privileged inside-the-house e-mails" in which he simply stated his opinion.

Then the flitter thwopped over a stand of ancient cedars, their age seeping into the cold blue sky, and left sambur and meleysens behind.

Among the messages was one in which Dr. Sambur urged Mr. Albaugh to treat the correspondence as sensitive.

Beyond those more traditional auras loomed the darkness of the vorpals and kalirams and the protective emptiness of the sambur.

Mr. Sambur rejects the notion that the F/A-22 is a Cold War relic and instead calls it a vision of the future.

"That means we have an eight-year delay until the Joint Strike Fighter comes on," Mr. Sambur added.

After leaving government service, Sambur co-founded Raptors Consulting Group, based in Potomac, Maryland.

Mr. Sambur, also takes issue with the celebrated $250-million-a-plane price tag, saying it includes all research and development costs to date spread over the number of planes to be made.

"We are ready to sign today," Dr. Sambur wrote in a message whose subject line included the words "HOT HOT!"