Word: corrales
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...trains remain the same; but this year's line of new accessories is disappointing. The best of the new developments is a cattle car that, at the press of a button, opens its doors and ejects a load of steers into a waiting corral...
Wood on the Fire. But it was the children who put the golden fence posts in Hoppy's old corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong...
Soon Maclean had taken the King's Shilling and been enrolled as a private in the Cameron Highlanders. But then Maclean heard rumors that the hoaxed and understaffed Foreign Office was taking steps to corral him back into the service. "Only one thing," Maclean concluded, "could save me: early election to Parliament." He consulted Tory headquarters and was advised to try his luck in a Lancaster by-election. The local party committee accepted him, and barely a month later, Maclean was voted M.P. for Lancaster. Then he got back...
...outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any such thing...
...Gardella and his fellow expatriates (ex-Cardinals Lanier and Martin), a change in the contract terms would turn salary negotiations into a dogfight between players and owners which could hurt the sport immeasurably. If players went to the highest bidders, the rich owners like Tom Yawkey would soon corral all the talent. In post-war major league baseball, there is comparatively little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown...