Word: corrals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable. He simply appeals to people, and despite his years, there is hardly anyone of any age who would not feel protective of him, would not wish him to succeed, would not forget the mistakes, who would not corral him in the hall and give him a job. Again this is not a tactic. It may well be his soul...
Jack Swanson, a big, easy-talking fellow, was in his 20s, breaking horses up in Oregon, when he got a box of paints for Christmas. As a boy he'd drawn horses. Now he took a horse out into the corral, tied it to a post and began to paint. And felt sweat break out on his forehead. "I had never had the experience of being so excited." So he enrolled in art school in Oakland, taking with him a couple of his horses. He lasted less than a term. "They'd have all these pots...
...seconds). Then Amigo S came up lame, and Swanson found an art school at Carmel, Calif. near the ocean, so he could exercise him in salt water. Mornings, he broke horses to make a living-"I'd have half a dozen of them lined up in the corral, already saddled, and I'd ride them one after another"-and in the afternoons he would paint. In the evenings he would work at building his house on a ranch he was buying near Carmel. It was 20 years of this routine before art paid the bills...
...militarism, reinstituted draft registration, Reagan's record suggests he might use the new recruits to fight for some new "noble cause." Where Carter has learned from four years of mixed success in foreign affairs, Reagan might misplace his three-by-five cards and stumble into the O.K. Corral with guns blazing...
Smith forward Martha Gray received a penalty kick opportunity, but Harvard goaltender Dana Warren thwarted the attempt, tipping the ball up and off of the crossbar. The ball took a crazy bounce down in front and before Warren could corral it. Gray booted it past her, cutting the Crimson's lead...