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...occurred to the team from Levittown, Pa. that baseball was anything but fun. Even when Levittown landed in the world series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., the kids still acted like kids. They swirled through free-for-alls, were sent to their rooms for pinching each other on the neck ("cow bite") or on the calf ("shark bite"). Said Little League Research Director Dr. Creighton Hale: "We've never seen anything like this light-hearted Levittown team...
...collection of condensed novels, such as those issued by Reader's Digest, belonging in this class for the same reason that a beef bouillon cube is a non-cow...
Piecing out Allie's recollections with other pioneer recollections and his own archive diggings, Historian Waters has produced a flavorful, though poorly organized book that presents the Earps as little better than cow-country Capones. Yet, if he has deflated one dream, Waters, unlike most debunkers. has offered a pleasant vision in its place: that of a gay, gallant old lady in her rocking chair, dreaming of corn-tall buffalo grass and a dead, handsome lover...
...last year. For weeks Jagjit worked night and day carrying buckets to save his half-acre patch of cane from the searing Indian sun; last week the violent onset of monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds and uses it for fuel. "We know this is wasteful," he said, "but there is nothing else to burn." Joining his palms and gazing reverently...
...anything," says he, "we will be more selective in the future." Just a Republic of Equals on the hilltop and perhaps a cow or two in the road...