Word: cow
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...MAMMALS. Indiana bat, Utah prairie dog, Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel, Texas red wolf, black-footed ferret, Florida panther, Florida sea cow (manatee...
...equipped planes and in recent years by helicopter. Hundreds of sealers-"swilers" in the Newfoundland dialect-conduct a brief but grimly efficient slaughter. With stout oak clubs they move systematically through the herd, beating the whitecoats to death with raps on the skull. Only if a hulking 300-lb. cow seal chooses to fight for her baby will a swiler sometimes spare it. But most cows, especially the older ones, abandon their pups and escape into the water...
Delightful Cow Paths. As with any authentic primitive painter, Blair's first subject was the farm-and the oldtime farm at that. Blair had all the credentials. Back in 1888, when Blair was born, his father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kans. As a child he earned 50? a day by working from sunup to sundown in the surrounding fields. He thought he hated it-the boredom, the ignorance, the poverty. "A cow path is delightful if you are out for a stroll, but not if you are trying to get somewhere," he observed later...
...spectacle that unfolded last week on the steps of a courthouse on Mos cow's Chernyshevsky Street is by now a familiar one in Russia. A crowd of friends and supporters of the accused had come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having...
Budgeted Misfortunes. He found such a spirit harder and harder to main tain as the years went by. At 30, he was old-looking and exhausted. Thinking that marriage would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges...