Word: calfing
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...before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...
...cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...
...takes up with a courtly rake in a Manhattan speakeasy. Actor Pinza, 59, whose close-up profile occasionally resembles Douglas Mac Arthur's, carries off his role with vigorous charm, and takes full advantage of his cues for a few operatic bits (the best: Song of the Golden Calf, from Faust), and two old popular tunes (I'll See You in My Dreams, Everything I Have Is Yours). If his style is a shade heavy for deft comedy, it is certainly no heavier than the script...
...Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear, breathless arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite...
...Brighton, Mass., James Stewart, 22, arrested for larceny, explained why he was heading toward home with a stolen calf: "My little boy is almost three years old and he's never seen a calf...