Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trick is done with hormones. Unlike some other domestic animals (e.g., mares), a ewe does not come into breeding condition soon after lambing. If she "lambs" in spring, she is seldom ready to start again until the following fall. Working under an Armour grant, Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only...
...every appearance of a proud parent. Then, back on location outside Rome for his new film on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, friendly local peasants presented the director with their traditional gift to the father of a newborn son: a basket of ricotta, a cheese made from ewe's milk and eaten on coarse black bread in the open air. Munching happily, Rossellini told a newsman: "I am the father...