Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near by, 15 people, marooned on a knoll, saved themselves by clinging to the tails of water buffalo that swam to dry land...
...last week 70 Texas communities were ready to start Tijerina schools this fall, in a grand attack aimed at smashing the language barrier forever. Already Latin Americans are trying to launch similar schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have...
When the overdressed Pontiac convertible pulled up to the studio gate one morning last week, the guard waved it in without a moment's hesitation. Philippine water-buffalo horns, 30 inches wide, arced away from the radiator; door handles, gearshift and fender ornaments were all pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...
...BUFFALO SOLDIERS, by John Prebble (256 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95], takes the reader back to the Indian territory (later part of the state of Oklahoma) in 1868, when the bit was tight on both horse and recruit. The pay rate for cavalrymen was "thirteen dollars a month, less twelve and a half cents deduction for the Soldiers' Home," and the odds against a man's getting back from a patrol were a little better than those for eventually getting to the home. The particular buffalo soldiers of the title are an ill-horsed detachment of Negro volunteers...