Word: abattoir
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...neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...sailor turned shopkeeper who died when the boy was only six, Author Martinson was left behind when his mother emigrated to the U.S., spent much of his boyhood and early youth tramping the world's roads and sailing the world's seas as sailor, cook, mechanic, abattoir worker and soldier of fortune...
...from the still-warm entrails of slaughtered horses. The next beast led toward the block sized up the grisly situation with terrible clarity. Its nostrils flared; its eyes rolled wildly. Screaming, rearing and kicking, it nearly brained a butcher with vicious swipes of its hoofs. The boss of the abattoir, Marius Auteroche, 52, a roly-poly little man whom all Arcueil knows as un roublard (a sharp operator), instantly decided that this horse had too much spirit to be slaughtered. He would use the beast to make another kind of killing...
...Said the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "As shameless as a jackal gorging on the remnants of a lion's breakfast kill, Al Weill, that distinguished promoter of international good will, is already talking of a return bout between Rocky Marciano and his Monday-night abattoir victim, Don Cockell. There having been no reason for the first match, except a grossly commercial one, there is even less cause for a second slaughter. And when Weill says, with a straight face, that he is considering a return bout in London, that is the supreme insult to everyone...
...torera from Texas, who quit school to assassinate an undersized bull in a Mexican bull ring, I suggest a job in an abattoir. Ole, huera...