Word: calfing
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...sign of the times! TIME worships the golden calf...
...Promised Land. Delivering his first speech after his return, he seemed even more wrought up about the enemy within than the enemy without, as he denounced his people for putting Zion's cause second to their own comforts and bowing down before "the golden calf." Later, addressing the Labor Party executive, he said: "There are too many gathered in the cities and towns and too few in the outlying places and along the border. There are too many middlemen and not enough productive workers. There is too much chasing after comfort, profit and riches, and not enough devoted work...
...Bone taken from young cows has "proved very satisfactory so far for grafting in humans," reported Drs. William B. Fischer and Irvin Clayton of Northwestern University Medical School. Calf-bone grafting has been used on twelve patients, whose own bone cells are believed to have formed new crystals around the scaffolding of the calf bone. Advantages of calf bone: it is available in unlimited quantities, is cheap and simple...
...call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
...Siren. Dugongs are sea mammals mysteriously descended from some remote aquatic ancestor of the elephant. Like elephants, they have tusks; like whales, they must rise to the surface to gulp in lungfuls of air. The female dugong's nipples are conspicuous and set forward; when suckling her calf, the mother clasps it to her breast with a flipper that bends at the elbow. At such moments, the head and shoulders of the dugong rise from the water in a vaguely human attitude. Many ichthyologists believe that this-and the fishlike tail the dugong displays when diving-led Greek...