Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving from range to feed lot must be as disorienting for cattle as moving from the New Guinea rain forest to Manhattan would be for a Pygmy. The first stop at Dick Farr's 35,000-animal feed lot is a receiving area where, says Farr, "we can dip, brand, castrate and vaccinate them in 30 seconds." Then the animals get their first taste of eating feed-lot-style. The first meal is alfalfa hay, which smells something like familiar range grass, mixed with a little bit of high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger...
...until she got settled," Harley says, in a left over row of dingy closed-out storefronts by the train tracks--in the center of the industrialized area off Route 23 just beyond Mr. Flood's Get Your Foreign Car Fixed garage and Super Gas at the bottom dip in Main Street. Behind the loft lies a fenced-in junkyard facing the Huron River and the rusted factory on the opposite bank. Harley figures that the Great turned Kimberly Rath on, but he can't be sure...
...sell animals held off the market during the so-called summer meat freeze. Now that livestock is dwindling, and the cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost frightening" 20%. Such cutbacks have already forced up the price of cattle ready for slaughter by 30%, to about 50? per lb., and supermarket executives expect to begin passing along the increases almost immediately. But consumers may again balk at buying beef, if it becomes too expensive...
...bachelor, Fox lives in a 26-room gray stone mansion in Englewood, N.J. He keeps himself fit swimming 30 laps daily in his 70-ft. heated indoor pool. He usually takes his dip after a midnight-to-3 a.m. practice session. Then he retires around 5 a.m. and rises at 3 the next afternoon. "I had to wait until I was 58 years of age till I reached the height of my usefulness," Fox explains. "People need Bach and God, and there ain't one violinist or singer that can give the sweeping feeling an organist can. I play...
...eggs, probably caused by the blackouts, which have disturbed the hens). Many of the jobs left vacant by called-up reservists have been filled by volunteers, ranging from teen-age American tourists to long-haired Hasidic Jews with white beards. An unexpected benefit of the crisis is the dip in crime. On one day last week, there were only 49 home burglaries in all of Israel, 50% below the peacetime average...