Word: carcasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue ribbons but in butchering. Last week 296 steers that had entered the judging rings live were rejudge in the cooler. Results: of 81 steers that took honors on the hoof, only 33 met the test as meat (chief disqualification: excessive fat, too little lean). The top carcass honors went to a lean-hipped 749-lb. Aberdeen-Angus, entered by Larry McKee, 17, of Varna, Ill., that had not won even an honorable mention in the ring...
...scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition: "The closing of title to take place 24 hours after my carcass cools off, with the balance due being secured by first mortgage in favor of my heirs, who do not want on a platinum platter what I hacked out the hard...
...shots at a moving target, neatly bagged his first quarry: a prince-sized (12 ft. 10 in. long, 5 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder) Indian bull bison. Warily clutching his gun, Nimrod Bunker posed for the camera with his solemn host, the Maharajah of Mysore, and the carcass, which was sent to a taxidermist for mounting...
...boots around his neck and gripped his underwear in his teeth, but, out in midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost his underwear when he opened his mouth. Making his way back to shore, he trudged back to the cabin, the bones of the deer carcass, and a couple 1954 issues of the Reader's Digest he had found in the shed. His favorite Digest story: the tale of a man who was washed off a ship and remembered how much he loved his wife and children while waiting for rescue...
...fallacy of the Eisenhower-Dulles Mid-Eastern policy is that the U.N. is already dead. It is a pity that Eisenhower is willing to sacrifice a frisky, spirited young colt for the carcass of a dead horse...