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...mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating it every day for pleasure. Even Kobe beef, on which every Japanese dotes when he can afford to, is a Western import. The first cow butchered in Japan died for the table of an American consul in Shimoda in the 1850s, and a monument has since been raised to it by the butchers' association of Japan. Before that, cattle were not eaten. The idea of eating beef was as strange as that of were...
...Texas staple. (Sample: Did you hear about the Aggie grad who lost his job as an elevator operator? He couldn't remember the route.) But this is no joke: workmen plan to complete a $723,000 restoration of the campus' Academic Building by smearing fermented cow manure across its brick...
...Blackie before he was Jack Dempsey, and he was William Harrison Dempsey before that. Also the Manassa Mauler, for the Colorado cow town where he was born on June 24, 1895. Toughening his face by marinating it in brine, hardening his jaw by chomping pine gum, Dempsey set out hoboing across the West and brawling in saloons. "You and your opponent would go at it," he exlpained, "and if the bar patrons liked it, they'd pass...
During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
...Socialist government holds that he machines are a source of endless trouble. Officials say gangsters supply most of the slots to bar owners and then rake off half of the take. Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who first proposed the ban, alls the machines "the milk cow of the underworld...