Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a remarkable week for James Earl Carter Jr. At its outset, the President heard that the wavering Senate might inflict a shattering blow to his prestige by rejecting the Panama Canal treaty; the next day it gave him instead a narrow but important victory. On Thursday fell the mournful first anniversary of the introduction of the energy program that Carter had once called the moral equivalent of war; the following day came news of a Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded...
...Thomas, known herein as Jimmy J., to strip, smear himself with river mud and encourage his pals to join him in a fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit attempt to summon Dean via ouija board, which spills over into a raid on a lover's lane to frighten non believing neckers...
...sheep had all heard legends of other sheep in Vard who had many many years ago stopped being mere sheep and had even taken over the meadow all to themselves and driven out the previous head of Vard, Nathan the Pussycat, but they didn't believe all the legends and didn't care much themselves to do more than graze and go "baaaa." They all lived in a time called by the field's newshounds 'the new mood of the meadow.' After they lived at Vard for four years Derek the Duck branded a big V on their sheepskin...
Then the sheep heard that the Council of Owls was involved in another meadow in a far off land called Aparkside, where the white sheep lived high off the hog (excuse the metaphor) by making the black sheep work really hard for them. And the white sheep wouldn't let the black sheep form a flock, and made them eat bad apples that caused many of the little lambs to die before they grew up. The Vard Council of Owls had a deal with the Aparkside rulers, in which Aparkside rulers like the John the Horsester gave Vard money...
...After the game, which Winthrop went on to win, 15-9, to remain undefeated (5-0) for the season, I heard Shepherd talking to one of his teammates...