Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DURING THE HARNESS racing season, the gamblers of Buffalo, N.Y.--the adolescent mafioso would-be's and syphilitic has-beens--can take a bus going to Batavia Downs to "maybe someday hit it big." Batavia isn't known for much else--it certainly isn't a very likely setting for a novel with the high aspirations of John Gardner's The Sunlight Dialogues. But poor Batavia is not as much to blame as John Gardner...
...because of higher war-related employment--a solution to the problem which was neither attractive nor permanent.) In the Johnson years Dick Gregory remarked on the government's failure to institute rat control: "They claim they can't kill the rats. This from the people who killed the buffalo?" I agree with the Crimson, Nixon is even worse than Johnson. But Ivan the Terrible was undoubtedly worse than Nixon. Shall we rejoice for every politician who is lesser than some other evil...
Flip through these pages and it's 1938. The maple leaves whisper outside the bedroom window and the algebra book is lying unopened on the desk. The Emerson table radio is tuned to WGR, Buffalo, as the announcer asks you to join him in "the small house halfway up in the next block" and the voice of Vic comes through the speaker greeting his son Rush: "Hi de hi, ho de ho, ink stopper...
...place to bomb if they saw people they would fire at them. Under these conditions. I was afraid of becoming sick because my heart was so very sad. The place where I used to play on the mountain and the place where I used to bring the cattle and buffalo in the evening to shit them up had become so many bomb craters. And I couldn't anymore because they had been sown with antipersonnel bombs some hadn't vet exploited. Sometimes an animal would kick one and it would blow up... But my father felt for his animals...
...lather was ploughing when unexpectedly, the fog shrouding the mountain all disappeared suddenly. My lather stood in the field with the buffalo watching for the plane to pass so he could unhitch the buffalo. But suddenly four planes of the F-4H type flew over and immediately released their bombs. The bombs destroyed my village. All six houses burnt and a bomb fell about fifteen meters from where my father was ploughing, causing the blown up earth and the shrapnel to kill my father and the buffalo instantly... My sister and I ran over to him, but I saw that...