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Over the Bordeaux-Merignac aerodrome in southwestern France, pilots find it wise to buzz the field once before trying to land. Buzzing disperses the sheep that graze contentedly between the runways. At one end of the field the 126th Bombardment Wing of the U.S. Air Force makes its headquarters...
...expression he has used since boyhood, but he does not remember the source. It is a colloquialism, at least as old as Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V. Capulet, Juliet's father, is angry because she refused to marry his choice, Paris. He tells her: "Graze where you will, you shall not house with...
...Texas I have often heard the expression, "Turn him out to graze," after an old horse had outlived his usefulness. In my opinion, this applies perfectly to Truman. Firing Mac-Arthur was the last straw...
...Waters and some 60 remaining inhabitants of Inishmurray petitioned the Irish government for new land, were moved to Sligo. There King Michael, a huge figure in homespun tweeds, with a sweeping mustache, continued to hold court among those of his subjects who revisited the island every summer, ostensibly to graze cattle, but actually, it was said, to engage in their traditional industry. In Sligo last week, at the age of 80, Michael Waters died. His eldest son Michael, known to the islanders as "Princie," a fishery agent in County Sligo, is not likely to assume the throne...
...world's ancient and not-so-ancient peoples, quoting Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, Peruvians, Aztecs, Mayas, Chinese and Polynesians. None of these sources speak clearly to back him up. No myth, for instance, describes an object nearly as big as the earth which came close enough to graze it. The myths speak cryptically, and Dr. Velikovsky thinks that that is probably because folks were gagged by "collective amnesia...