Word: calfing
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...Golden Calf. "At the root of the present troubles of the world we must find a pervasive materialism, a devastating desire for material goods. . . . We know now that mechanical and technical progress is not identical with civilization. We must conclude, in fact, that our faith that technology will take the place of justice has been naive...
...department, where we have had nearly 100 cases in one day. I have counted over 40 large ulcers, as big as a shilling, on each of the legs of one man. The ulcers are deep and painful, penetrating to the muscles, and sometimes destroying 50% of the skin of calf and shin...
However, since the day I read my children your story about gremlins, the neighbors' cows have broken down the stone walls to eat up all our apples, our own calf broke loose and chewed up dozens of precious trailing arbutus plants, and a strange horse, whose owner we've not yet found, trampled through the nursery flower beds and ate up half of our vegetable garden...
...crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner's luck passing José Maria's small (250 kilos) but tough bull. During this interruption...
...about the possibility of his visiting the U.S.* he said: "I have no faith that I could do anything good for India by going to America. They would lionize people; they would listen to them, but they would go their own way. . . . It is difficult to wean the golden calf from the worshipers of Mammon...