Word: dungeness
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...radio stations). But mostly he devoted himself to his 330-acre ranch, occasionally helping to lay pipe in the middle of the shallow Pedernales and gradually building up his cattle herds through shrewd trading at local livestock auctions. He would come home at ten in the evening, tired and dung-booted, to tell his guests about the price of beef and about egg production problems. "He's become a goddam farmer," an old friend complained. "I want to talk Democratic politics. He talks only hog prices...
...battlefields they are nowhere to be found, yet these "martyrs," these degenerate "heroes of the sewers" shriek their hysterical victories over unarmed innocents, over women and children and airborne passengers, and then scuttle back to the dung heaps from whence they came...
...Israel," he added. "Shalom!" The speech led many Frenchmen to believe that he was Jewish. As it turned out, Aranda is Catholic, conservative and, to the consternation of the government, a staunch Gaullist. The Mirage statement, he explained grandly, was just "a poetic touch, a flower on the dung heap...
...remember one from my high school days in the early 1950s. The Indian chief said to his assembled tribe during a famine: "I have good news and bad news. First the bad news: there's nothing to eat but buffalo dung. Now the good news: there's plenty of buffalo dung...
Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...