Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
...nine were trained by Johnny Campo, who saddled Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Pleasant Colony in 1981. That fine spring, Campo became as prominent as his stomach, holding forth on the unsentimental subject of cheap horses, crows as he is wont to call them, in front of Barn 48, which has now burned to the ground...
...Steve was trying not to cry," she says. "I knew right then that Concession was dead." The cause of the fire is an uneasy mystery, though a sprinkler system had been disconnected in the cold. About all Lewandowski could tell her was, "There's been a fire at the barn. There'll be some papers to sign." He recalls with admiration, "She asked how I was doing. Katrina's smart, realistic. She understands the track...
...UCLA and the University of Houston filled the Astrodome for a basketball game, just about the only pretext that weary barn has anymore for calling itself "the eighth wonder of the world." That was more than ten times the Cougars' customary audience, and so what figured to be a mystery for the ages was: Where did Texas find 52,000 basketball fans? But now the question is: How did it become the basketball capital of the world...
...part political caucus, part camp meeting, part trade show--and all barn burner. As the crowds of 4,000 milled through the Sheraton Washington Hotel in the nation's capital last week, Gospel singers crooned, video- equipment salesmen hawked their wares, and media consultants prowled the meeting rooms for new talent. Dozens of Senators and Congressmen made it their business to turn out for the cameras and lights, cementing alliances and buffing up images. Jeane Kirkpatrick and Jesse Jackson were there. President Reagan, appropriately, sent a message on videotape...