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...Loeb tuning for rehearsal looks like a huge barn before haying--empty, dirty and waiting for something. The audience and their energy are gone, but the actors and even the techies act as if it were opening night at the Bolshoi. One rushes in theatrically with a new costume, another stands deliberately at center-stage twisting and stretching in exercise, testing his voice at scream level, another bursts into song; even the stage hands on top of towering ladders are flamboyant and dramatic. Drums are pounding in the background...
Young Dr. Herriot is forever stripping to the waist in some drafty Darrowby barn and soaping up his arm to plunge it into one troubled animal orifice or another. For Herriot, and the reader, the rewards of such expeditions range from delivery of little nibbling creatures who sometimes get stuck in the process of being born, to the periodic relief administered to Tricki Woo, a pampered little Pekingese constantly overfed by her mistress. To be fair, though, as Herriot invariably is, the struggling assistant vet is every bit as susceptible to .the sherry and smoked oysters supplied him by Tricki...
...Just like a fish hook," he said and took a hammer from his overalls. He drove one of the notorious nails into an upright beam in the barn, up to a quarter-inch from its head...
...stroke and it confined her to her home. When she was a teenager, Rebekah had hired her to tend the Johnson children while Rebekah taught her elocution students. Mrs. Lewis remembered the time that Lyndon had taken the younger ones up in the loft of the barn and while he was going down a ladder with one of the girls he had fallen. "He held onto the little girl," said Mrs. Lewis. "She wasn't hurt. But Lyndon broke...
First off were more than 30 B-52Gs, recognizable by their light beige underbellies and the absence of bomb racks under their wings; their 20,000 lbs. of bombs are crammed into barn-sized bomb bays. Then came the older Ds, which are probably the world's meanest-looking aircraft, with two dozen 500-lb. bombs clustered on racks under the wings and 42 stubby 750-pounders inside. Painted pitch black, they looked like the birds of death that they are. Of all the 80 or so aircraft I watched depart, only one of them...