Word: aught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted," he noted, "affect the mind with more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them, the consequent associations are of God, the Creator; they are his undefiled works." Cole decided to become a landscape painter instead of a portraitist...
...merry swain, who laugh'd among the vales, And with your gay pipe made the mountains ring, Why leave your cot, your woods and thymy gales, And friends belov'd, for aught that wealth can bring...
...early as 1857, the authors contend, Democratic and Republican leaders had become intransigent, so that the future Presidents' moderation "would become operative only when the other side retreated from its present position. Yet neither Lincoln nor Davis could regard a retreat from his particular position as aught but surrender--hence there would be no retreat...
...judge of a bucking bull is his meanness in the arena, and on that count, 14-year-old "Aught"-half Brahman, half Hereford-probably qualifies as the orneriest critter in captivity. Starting his 13th year on the rodeo circuit, he has been saddled with 482 riders-only six have managed to stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete...
Tompkins had discovered the Ferdinand side of Aught's complex personality. Outside of working hours, he likes people. He certainly hates other bulls. "In 1950, when I bought him," says Aught's owner, Washington Stock Contractor Joe Kelsey, "I tried putting him in with the other bulls. He tore into them. I tried putting him in a separate corral, but that didn't work either. Corrals with a low fence, he'd charge right through, and when I put him in an arena with a six-foot fence, he'd jump right over...