Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humberto Fuenzalida decided that the body rightfully belonged in his Museum of Natural History. He took it from the freezer forthwith and carried it off to his collection of stuffed pumas and condors-a coup of science roughly comparable to a band of West Point cadets kidnaping the Navy goat on the eve of the service academies' annual football game. As soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge of the history of the Incas in Chile." When skeptical newsmen demanded...
...modern setting -a Greek-inhabited Turkish town, circa 1920. Second of his novels to be published in the U.S. within a year, it is a striking demonstration of literary virtuosity for Kazantzakis. The hero of his Zorba the Greek was a neo-Hellenic Pan who seemed to have goat-footed his way straight out of pagan mythology. The Greek Passion is a powerful parable of the Christian conscience and a high mark for the rest of 1954's novelists...
...when his flock became restive, a shepherd boy in 10th century France left his bread and goat's-milk cheese behind him in a cave near the village of Roquefort. Weeks later the boy came back to see what had become of his lunch. The bread was a lost cause, but the cheese was covered with green mold that proved highly edible. The result: mankind began eating Roquefort cheese...
Neighbor on the Doorstep. The Prime Minister, snorting with authority, arrived in Jovian grandeur; at one moment fuming over a misplaced cigar-cutter, the next good-humoredly caressing the Welch Fusiliers' goat mascot, ducking the television microphones. His body was stooped, his right leg dragged noticeably at every step. The man with him, Anthony Eden, suntanned and casual, shared little of Sir Winston's anticipation...
After months of necessarily dry or unfavorable reporting on "their" administration in Washington, TIME gobbled up Brownell's exhumation of the Harry Dexter White case like a hungry goat an empty...