Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have been a nauseating concoction, both in sight and smell. But here in the rarefied cold of the Himalayas it was like a rich, hot soup. After two full bowls, my numbness and exhaustion were gone, and I was off down the steep trail like a mountain goat...
...used to have three institutions at the Academy," said a Navy commander. "Billy goat, Tecumseh and 'Spike' Webb. Now we have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced...
...never took a lesson, never hampered his free & easy game with the kinks and strains that often plague the rule-book golfer. At twelve, Sam took up caddying at the Homestead, studied the pros, and played the employees' course-nine tortuous holes on a mountainside called the "goat -course." The Sneads were poor (father Snead was a maintenance man in the Homestead's boiler room). In addition to caddying, Sam also worked as a soda jerk...
...time of crisis ... I am certain that the witness of our church must be so clear that it need not be explained ..." But hearty, Kentucky-born Bishop Quin, whose 35 years as bishop of Texas make him the Episcopal bishop oldest in service, replied bitterly: "I'm the goat ... I do not like the decision. I do not think it was warranted . . . But I thank God for the kind of religion I have ... which gives me the stuff to take it and to keep on plugging for the whole church...
...minutes show that there was only one cheese which the members thought 'stank.' Norwegian goat cheese had a taste that was rich, sweet, flat, condensed milk, and oily. It had the appearance of peanut butter and with its sour-like aroma, it was unanimously despised by the entire group...