Word: goats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alcoholic Goat...
...avoid Clay when he's hung over. You go in at your own risk. He butts his head against the fence so hard sometimes that we have to go out and calm him down." Usually, that is enough to sober up Clay Henry, a 130-lb. black mountain goat...
...Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon which he was embarking. Then each crossed the starting line and began a 27,000-mile competitive voyage that should bring the winner, tired and shaggy, back to The Newport in the late spring...
...journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series of sailing...
...children to keep quiet. Her youngest son defiantly boasted, "I am proud to be a frog, and it is in the nature of a frog to croak." He hopped off one day to the bank of a pond and croaked so loudly and so long that a mountain goat spotted him and killed him. "I told him not to croak," the mother frog mourned. "Do not scold your dead son," said the father. "He had the courage to be himself...