Word: cleanse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Easy, old girl," says Herriot as he cleans out a cow's afterbirth. He removes the arm-length plastic gloves. "Wonderful things, these. In the old days I was up to my arms in blood and dirt. And no time to write more than a prescription. No antibiotics then...
Tremont's long vigil in Los Angeles and the trip back East are told in alternating chapters. Folded together this way, the two stories underscore Tremont's uneasy, mid-life situation. He cleans up for his ailing father and for his sloppy son; he sleeps, on different occasions...
The city executes its maintenance work with a precision similar to that of the Dallas Cowboys on a pass pattern. Dallas keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs...
The next morning Reagan and his wife were at the horse barn by 10 o'clock. He likes to ride for a couple of hours each morning and work in the afternoon. He saddles the horses himself, cleans their hoofs and, in the past, even changed their shoes. He...