Word: graze
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Copey's eyes shone with a youthful gleam yesterday as he revealed a plan which he has had in mind for years. He is determined, he announced, to buy a cow this spring and to test his right to graze her in the Yard...
...healthy, successful president, whether of a corporation or of the U. S., really wants to be turned out to graze at the age of, let us say, 58. Corporations know what to do with such a president. Instead of switching him abruptly from a position of intense activity to the Nirvana of complete retirement, they make him Chairman of the Board...
...next two articles, The War in Finland: A Controversy, and Professor Sorokin's "credo," Conservative Christian Anarchy, less can be said on the score of readability. The article on Finland adds nothing new to an already well-defined clash of opinion, while Mr. Sorokin's confessions will graze only the upper lobes of the undergraduate brain...
When he was eleven, Elmer Gantry had his first attack of periodic ophthalmia (blindness). Two years later the attacks came so frequently that all he could do was to stand listless and dejected in his stall, graze haltingly through the pasture...
Arizona cattlemen had their backs to the wall when Coolidge first knew them. They had been through three years of drought and were being "sheeped" out of existence, as sheepherders brought their huge herds from dried-up northern ranges to graze on land that had been sacred to cattle. Cattle, said the cowboys, spread out in family groups to graze. Sheep followed each other, were bunched by the herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher...