Word: calfing
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...walls Brundage built were not strong enough to withstand the inevitable in a world where sport has become a preeminent form of entertainment. Amid raging debate, in 1981 the word amateur was stricken from the Olympic charter. Unable to kill the sacred calf itself, the I.O.C. turned over eligibility rules to the individual sports federations in 1987, and the transitions that followed were haphazard and often unfair...
Felix was trained to build shoes from scratch.Now he does repairs only, but sometimes that meansrebuilding a shoe from very little. On hisworkbench there is a an English calf-high bootwith the soles ripped off, the welt in tatters,only the upper remains. "This job will take morework, I don't make no money doing this, but I knowthis customer long time, sometimes you got to putin special effort, and then he tells other people,other people, other people, and I don't need toadvertise...
...stare that made him, according to one Hollywood wit, "the last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease, Flashdance) and cash-cow TV series (Taxi, Cheers). Then he took over 20th Century Fox, where he stanched its financial hemorrhaging, stabilized its film program and, oh, started the first successful TV network in 40 years...
Tetsoro Fujiwara, a Japanese researcher, began surfactant replacement therapy in infants, the results of which were reported in 1980. Fujiwara was able to achieve success in this therapy through the use of calf-lung surfactant administered as a liquid into the trachea...
...There's so much of it, much more than Japan. For days after I arrived, I would wander out onto the ranch late at night and look up at the stars. So many stars!" The next thing that struck Kaz hit a little harder. Assigned to wrestle his first calf, the newcomer resorted to the only technique he knew -- judo -- and landed in the dirt. "I tried leg sweeps," he says, "only I had forgotten that they have four legs -- two too many...