Word: clopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK, N.Y.After consuming a sumptuous roast beef au jus repast at the Essex House to the clippity-clop of horse and buggies conveying honeymooning couples down Central Park South, the Harvard hoopsters journeyed uptown to the somewhat less-than-splendiferous lavender linoleum floor of Nat Holman Gymnasium, for a wide-open shoot-'em-up game against the City College of New York...
...former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing at first--King Arthur has no horse but his page carries split coconut halves that clop together to sound as if he is galloping--are beaten into the ground by repetition...
...years, Munich's storied brewery horses made daily deliveries of Löwenbräu beer to inns in the old part of the city. Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study...
Morgan (Richard Harris) enters America as a white hunter and emerges as an Indian chief. His small hunting party is annihilated by Sioux who decide to keep the Englishman as a plaything. They dub him Horse, tether his neck and make him clop about on all fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes...