Word: cluck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, Carter's handling of the mass firings caused Europeans to cluck in wonder. A high-ranking West German Foreign Ministry official asked: "Is this serious, or is this just a great religious exercise for the soul?" Oslo's middle-roading daily Verdens Gang called the Washington situation a "circus" and a "balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than...
...from broken roof tiles. Ragged bundles of kindling wood tied with string line the sidewalk. Chipped red bricks, tin washbasins and wooden buckets for carrying water are scattered over the hard-packed earth. A few bicycles, all carefully locked, lean against the facades of three-story buildings. Three chickens cluck quietly inside a slatted wooden cage. Children mill about, some of them skipping rope, while their parents do the weekend wash, drawing water from streetside cold-water spigots...
...most African cities the central marketplace is a carnival, where women mass in daylong congregation, squat amid bundles and babies, haggle over prices, cluck over misfortunes and paw over food for sale. Not in Luanda. Its central market, a dank, echoing, three-story concrete structure, is virtually empty of food. Long, bare counters stretch away into the urine-scented gloom. Weighing scales swing empty in the hot breeze, and the women sit quietly, waiting...
...elements-fall into a trough that flushes the refuse to a rendering plant across the street. The refuse is then converted into chicken feed that is recycled into the next generation of broilers, who become unwitting cannibals. This super-streamlined operation, which uses everything from the chicken but the cluck, is run by Stratford of Texas Inc., a company less than four years old. Chief Executive Officer Robert Gow formed it in order to apply the computerized principles of industrial engineering to the task of pleasing a nation of hungry consumers...
...nails and transistors more cheaply than we can, the U.S. can produce broilers and beef more cheaply and ship them all over the world." Thus far, Stratford's three basic operational areas are cattle, chickens and potted plants, and Gow organizes each division down to the last moo, cluck and root. Centralized production is one principle: the cattle operation is typical. Stratford's three yards are concentrated within a 30-mile radius, in keeping with Gow's belief in concentrated locations, and they feed a total of 150,000 head. (By December Gow plans to expand...