Word: goat
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...peregrinations, Riggs never neglects the main business at hand, which is to promote the match with King and, if possible, to get King's goat. He recently appeared in a pro-celebrity tournament at Forest Hills, N.Y., playing in granny rags. He even has gone so far as to call King a "loudmouth," which is rather like Linda Lovelace calling Alice Cooper an exhibitionist. Riggs promises to "psych her out of her socks." Ah, he gloats, how about this: "I get the biggest funeral wreath you ever saw, and I wear black crape all over during the match...
...harvest. Some farmers, driven off their lands when wells went dry, did not return in time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost all their animals down to the last goat. For the nomads, that means they have lost everything. Taken as a whole, the six stricken nations may lose 60% of their cattle and 50% of their grain harvests this year...
Diane Hackett, a La Grange, Ill., housewife, recently bought a live lamb for $10 and last weekend was headed for a farm where she intended to purchase a cheap goat. Mrs. Hackett is not after pets for her eight children; she plans to barbecue the goat. Lydia Galton of New York City recently performed the bloody job of slicing 100 Ibs. of liver; it was her turn to serve as distributor for the food co-op she and her neighbors have organized. In Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hollon have taken to growing wheat in their front yard and vegetables...
Freezer Run. The bargain hunters seem to fall into two camps: those determined to eat as much meat as ever and others willing to use high-protein alternatives to some extent. Mrs. Hackett, the lamb-and-goat lady from La Grange, speaks for the carnivores: "I know there are a lot of women who are going to ride it out with eggs and cheese, but I want meat...
...been horrified at how simple it is. Just some shrimp, white wine, heavy cream, butter, a few shallots"). The fourth course was wild duck in green pepper sauce ("If you come in December, you can eat duck that I shoot myself"). Though sated by now, Englund continued through the goat cheese-Collonges goats, of course-but a sense of self-preservation made him turn down the pastry and the seven varieties of fruit in wine...