Word: brahma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...
When Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Houston last year, Rancher John Joyce gave him a Texas-size souvenir: a 1,000-lb. champion brahma bull worth $10,000. Joyce also handed Deng a letter offering to sell more bulls, if China was shopping...