Word: goates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they had been given 20 to 30 stripes at a time. But the stories from the woodshed were quickly forgotten after Mrs. Eaton revealed the doings in the kitchen. With tearful remorse, the Mistress pleaded ignorance of "their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding. It's utterly unknown to me," she protested, adding, "but I am ashamed it should be in the family, and not prevented by myself or servants, and I humbly acknowledge my negligence...
...walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
...goat, of course, won (otherwise the story would never be told). Even so, says Matheson, no good horse player ever counts on luck. Nor does he listen to his wife. Matheson should know. He spends most of his time traveling about the U.S., lecturing (at $35 per course per student) to would-be horse players on how to win at the races...
...Minh, the goat-bearded leader of the Viet Minh, has not been seen alive by any non-Communist for more than three years and there have been many rumors (some for a time accepted by U.S. intelligence) that he was seriously ill or dead. Last week he proved to be alive and kicking. From a mysterious retreat somewhere in Communist territory, he came to Thainguyen, 40 miles from Hanoi, and lunched with Canadian, Indian and Polish members of the armistice commission. The Indian representative, Subimal Dutt, reported himself very favorably impressed...
...Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait of hicker' nuts" and "enough roasting ears to kill a goat." When Skeeter finds him a "li'l old puppy dog" lost in the swamp, life seems about as sweet as it can be without a shotgun. Thing about Lady is. she can't bark, but she can laugh and cry real honest-to-God tears. And Skeeter trains her until...