Word: hennings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foxes in the Hen House...
Before she got the hens, Brinkley had taken to wearing high fishing boots when she walked to the beach. "We were really infested," she says. "It seemed as if every blade of grass had a tick hanging off it." Her hen patrol has reduced the local tick population, although that has not prevented her from contracting the tormenting ailment that she and millions of other householders routinely take elaborate pains to avoid. The tick that infected her with what was diagnosed last week as Lyme disease probably, she thinks, bit her while she was horseback riding...
...said the fact that the state-run process has only been monitored by state agencies is tantamount to "letting the fox guard the hen house." "We have to be in essence the watch-dog here," he said...
...sudden squall lashed into the U.S. Navy dirigible Macon as it plied the skies off Northern California. The storm ripped off the upper tail fin of the 785-ft. craft, which plunged slowly toward the waters of the Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...
...Hen house and run are completed, and in fact are inhabited by thirty black hens which were delivered at dead of night by Mrs. Clement. "This is the best time to transport hens" apparently. Louis and I had been busy for a week putting up an escape proof fence (we hope) and turning one end of the play hut into a replica Hilton Hotel, roosts, nest boxes etc. So now we have the gentle chucking of hens and the occasional cackle when one or the other manages to lay an egg (eight today...