Word: graze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macaroni, the ponies, graze contentedly on the lush grass. Caroline's Welsh terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...German-descended citizens of Pflugerville, Texas (pop.: 400), the most important things in life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High...
...mother ship and joining it will be no more difficult than long-practiced rendezvous with the same equipment while on earth orbit. The bug will be abandoned, to circle endlessly around the moon, and the reunited three-man crew will head back for earth. They will have to graze the atmosphere, hitting a "corridor" only 40 miles deep, but they will have plenty of time to correct their course...
Cattle and sheep graze over the vast domain of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...
...have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...