Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught them and beat them up. The army was called in, and soon the cows were under military protection in a barracks. Eventually, the military turned them over to the local agrarian reform organization. But the angry owner had decided to give the cows to another town as a gift. Soon the two towns were doing battle. The affair finally ended when a committee of workers decided to divide the cows between the two villages...
...Story of the Andes Survivors, Read inherited his Dostoyevskian themes as a gift. A remote plane crash, the compel ling temptation to cannibalism, all this extremity allowed him to make the most of his favorite question: How can a man manage to survive without being damned? Beside this bestselling documentary. Read's novels so far have seemed all too contrived. But there is courage along with foolhardiness here, seriousness as well as pretension. Over extended though he is, Read writes for the most part with grace and economy...
...honor of Bicen bison and togetherness, N-M is offering a small herd of trophies ranging from rolls of 40 uncirculated buffalo nickels-minted in 1938, the last year the bison was seen on coins-at $450 each, to "nearly lifesize" stuffed synthetic bison for $700. The boffo gift for buffalo buffs: live male and female calves ($11,750 the pair) from "the first certified 100% pure-bred buffalo herd in the U.S." There are 20 pairs available; gift wrapping is described as "optional and difficult." Bison sales to date: 20 rolls, two stuffed and one pair on the hoof...
...what a gift! Chief Gorski's cops...
...investments are made "separately from the rest of the University's endowment," Brown said. Endowment investments "are planned in terms of 300 years" while gift investments are geared "more towards the benefactor's life span," he added...