Word: goat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goat isn't exactly at the top of every teenager's wish list, but that's what Dee Hahn, 58, of Redmond, Wash., bought her grandson Jeremy, now 14, last Christmas. Through World Vision, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, Hahn spent $75 in Jeremy's name to buy a dairy goat that will supply milk for a child-headed Rwandan family. Other items in the nonprofit's catalog include a birthday party for a Romanian orphanage ($30), and a survival pack for a resettling family from Kosovo ($80). The gifts are tax deductible, and gift recipients receive a card from World...
...friend! I must be more passionate! More beautiful! More full of love! They think that I sing so loud because I am "sexually frustrated." They compare my voice to a "screaming banshee who is being beaten with barbed wire and then being chopped up and fed to a rabid goat." Everyone knows that there are no goats in Canada. Then they suggest that I am not "pretty and sweet" like I seem, but rather "pure evil and not from this planet...
...make that play. But if I had to do it over again, I would still try to pick up that first down and still try to run that kid over. When you play quarterback you don't know how quickly you can go from being the hero to the goat. You just can't second guess yourself like that...
...other customers were reportedly summoned before a federal grand jury this summer to hear the bad news that the scarves--which can fetch up to $15,000--are not just wretchedly expensive; they're also illegal. "I was told that the hair came from the chin of the ibex goat," says Kempner. "That [the goats] rubbed it into the rocks and villagers picked it up and wove it into shawls." That is a quaint--and popular--delusion. The wool of a goat is combed and woven into pashminas. But the superior wool of shahtooshes is harvested from dead chirus...
Game 2 was a tighter affair, and Carmack was central, playing both hero and goat. The sophomore, who was Harvard's lone representative on the All-Tournament Team, drove in the Crimson's only two runs of the tournament with a two-run home run off VCU winner Jason Dubois (10-2) in the fourth that made...