Word: deere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading fiction or fact. It was so prejudiced that even before the Kennedy suit, Manchester had been persuaded by his publisher and Kennedy advisers to eliminate much of the offending material, including the opening chapter which, reportedly, had L.BJ. virtually forcing the late President to go hunting, kill a deer and have it mounted for his office...
Almost daily, the President hopped into his tan station wagon and drove around the 400-acre L.B.J. Ranch to gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday...
...maybe a pair of antlers. Could any one mistake a 13-year-old boy, dressed in a red hat and red jacket and driving a blue and white snowmobile, for a deer? A Minnesota hunter did just that last month and shot the boy dead. In Maine, Edwin Horr, 60, was sitting on a rock, smoking, when he was shot - in the right knee, left calf and left thigh - by a myopic marksman who thought that the smoke of Horr's cigarette was the rump of a white-tailed buck...
Foot-and-mouth disease is one of the most fiercely contagious of viral infections-for beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs. But even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter how closely he may have worked with the afflicted livestock. To Bachelor Bob Brewis, who lived on his brother's farm in Yetlington, a tiny village in England's North Country, a doctor's suggestion that he might have Britain's first human case of foot...
...fearsome winds can also have beneficial results. In Canada, chinooks sometimes produce refreshing, springlike thaws in the midst of long, sub-zero winters. They often melt enough snow to allow deer and cattle to forage for food on the uncovered ground. In Los Angeles last week, as the smog was temporarily displaced by dry, clear air, residents out for an evening walk could look up to see an unfamiliar and refreshing sight: the stars...