Word: calfing
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Speaking of that-calf. . . I have the sincere satisfaction of knowing that he will some day grace a platter-perhaps my very own . . . Calves are like men, some have sense-and some have not. Evidently, he has not as he can never find his meals unless someone is kind enough to assist him. Even then he's ungrateful, as behold what he did to me. I only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center...
...William in Australia and New Zealand; Anne in Pakistan in May, where she will visit a refugee camp near the Afghan border. Last week it was disclosed that while Diana stayed behind and carried on with her regular schedule, Charles had just spent a week milking cows, delivering a calf and building stone fences on a tenant farm he owns in Cornwall. At the end he gave an exclusive interview to Donald Simpson, agriculture writer for the Western Morning News. The labor had been hard, he said, and his back hurt, but the farm breakfasts had been splendid...
...history of the merry-go-round discloses an intriguing variety of national tastes. Americans preferred animals in armor; the French were fond of cats and bunnies; and the Germans liked galloping pigs. As fascinating as banners portraying the Jolly Fat Lady, the Cardiff Giant and the proverbial Two-Headed Calf were the artists who created these icons of the bizarre. The exemplary Snap Wyatt, a cigar-smoking sign painter, became one of America's midway masters in his Florida studio. He once built a 9-ft.-tall animated elephant stepping on a convicted Hindu for a traveling "torture show...
...heart developed there by Dr. Robert Jarvik, a 36-year-old medical prodigy who began to design his first invention, a surgical stapler, at age 17. Clark toured a facility where several sheep and calves are kept alive by Jarvik's hearts, and even witnessed an implantation. A calf named Tennyson set the survival record of 268 days before succumbing to an infection last year...
...other housebreaker merits note. As a calf-eyed aspiring playwright with a manic giggle and an iron handshake, Nathan Lane is the kind of disciple who could drive a deity to drink. Doubling as director of Present Laughter, Scott favors a whirlwind pace and high-decibel delivery. Casting himself against type is a bonus. This is a Patton pistol-whipped by endless frustration. There is high glee in watching George C. Scott do a fast burn of impotent, unutterable rage. - By T.E. Kalem