Word: grazed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire to cooperate with SEC. They have admitted the existence of abuses, in the past if not the present. They have conceded the need of regulation, for their fellow trusters if not themselves. They have freely volunteered advice on how to catch the goats while leaving the sheep to graze...
...Kansas trains approaching a cross-road must stop and neither proceed until the other has gone; in Connecticut a man was arrested for kissing his wife; and in Cambridge no person shall allow a goat to graze in the street...
...food and unlimited quantities of water. A typical daily ration: 40 Ib. of green feed; 12 Ib. of beet pulp; 25 Ib. of sliced beets; 20 Ib. of silage; 20 Ib. of mixed grain feed; 2 Ib. of molasses. When the weather was good Daisy was allowed to graze for two hours daily...
Famine suddenly threatened the Ruala, forcing a great migration into enemy grazing grounds. The entire tribe of 35,000 with 350,000 camels, moved north into Syria. A movement so vast had international complications. French scouting planes flew overhead; raiding automobiles harried the tribe on the march. In a desperate move, Faris and Carl Raswan, representing Amir Fuaz, drove into the enemy grounds of the Fid'an to ask permission for the Ruala to graze there. Received suspiciously, threatened with death, they threw themselves on the hospitality of the Fid'an, who were thus compelled to let them...
...certain nakedness at first, in the absence of the accepted minutiae,--even of gowns, bicycles and turbans, which contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...