Word: goates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reeks the goat...
Payoff Pass. For a while at the outset it appeared that the Southern California Trojans' brilliant Tailback Jimmy Sears (TIME, Nov. 3) might be the goat of the game. A Sears fumble on his own 30-yd. line set up the first scoring play for U.C.L.A.'s Bruins: a 22-yd. field goal. But early in the second period Sears put his team back into the lead with an impromptu play that brought the crowd roaring to its feet. Running interference for teammate Al Carmichael, Sears saw his teammate stopped after a ten-yard gain, yelled...
...once, to everybody's astonishment, the beggar became a model citizen. Though people could scarcely believe it possible, the reason seemed to be that he had found something outside himself to love: a small goat. He had found her in the hills one day. She licked his hand. He stroked her and looked into her clear dark eyes. He saw gold flames whirling in the depths. "My Golden One!" said the unworthy poor man. Although he was very poor, he bought black shoe polish to shine her little hoofs...
Sure that the goat loved him, the poor man let her visit the rich man whenever she liked. One winter day, the goat took sick. The poor man carried her to the rich man's house and let her stay there through the stormy night. The next day he waited for her to come home. He wanted her to come of her own free will, of her own free love. Being only a goat, she forgot to, and stayed at the rich man's house, while the poor man led a life of complete dejection, without even...
...long last, the little goat lay dying. All at once she remembered the poor man. Staggering up, she ran home to him and died in his arms. Brokenhearted, he prayed that she might go to heaven. She did. "It is somewhat unusual for animals to enter paradise," said the gatekeeper. "Still, we have 'a few exceptions...