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...milking pit, Mike Brentz, a burly offshore oil worker, lifts a snake from a garbage can and places it on a small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: A Local Spring Rite | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...leaders of the Reformation proper, the tracts and sermons of Luther count here by hundreds, while those of Zwingli, Melanchthon and Calvin, and Bullinger, Brentz, Bucer, Jonas, Bugenhagen, as of their opponents, Eck, Emser and Cochleus and Murner are only less numerous. Here is the first edition of the works of Zwingli, and the great Walch editions of those of Luther. - New York Star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/3/1887 | See Source »

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