Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound Advice. In Chicago, after his wife explained why she was bringing suit for separate maintenance, Richard Michalak received, among more than 500 sure cures for snoring, suggestions that he 1) eat three small onions on retiring, 2) have his tonsils out, 3) drink goat's milk with all meals, 4) get some blood transfusions, 5) wrap a rubber tourniquet around his neck...
Spring Offensive. Near Port Arthur, Ont., when three cops showed up at Louis Damill's farm with a search warrant, Damill's nettled nanny goat 1) grabbed the warrant and chewed half of it, 2) butted one of the officers, 3) broke loose from the barn after they locked her in, 4) routed the three from the premises...
...Goat. Dunham insisted that Dawson himself had never tried to influence him on a RFC loan. But, he conceded, "I think I have outlived my usefulness with the RFC." He had tentatively written out a resignation several weeks ago, he said, and gone to Florida for a vacation. There he got a call from RFC's Vice Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter...
...Paul Bowles, "The Sheltering Sky" and "The Delicate Prey" ("No moralist, I nevertheless feel crawly after reading stories in which a good healthy sexual relationship with a goat would be considered normal to the point of humdrum...
There was one hitch: neither Lindsay nor Petersen knew much about hot rods or publishing. By haunting Southern California race tracks, they learned the lingo, found that "herding a goat" meant driving an old racing car, that a "jug" was a carburetor, that a "featherfoot" had a light throttle touch. Then a neighborhood engraver showed them how to lay out pages; a printer taught them to proofread. With $859 scraped up from trusting advertisers and friends, Hot Rod magazine appeared in December...