Word: herd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming dangers of throwing off our controls, they are as nothing in contrast to the dangers of being merely a tended herd...
They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink...
...Overcrowding is almost universal. At Craig Colony for epileptics, crowding is so bad that mattresses are spread on the floor of the Day Room at night. "The contrast between these crowded buildings and the cow barn, where the dairy herd of the institution is kept, is marked...
...could point to any organized sabotage, though the unfounded rumor that the herd had the dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy...
Farmer Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his tenant-partner Arthur D. Hoose are quitting the milk business. Last week, while co-owner Morgenthau was touring the battlefronts, Hoose announced that their herd of 100 purebred Jersey and Holstein cows would be put up for sale on Dec. 11. The Dutchess (N.Y.) County Fishkill Farms will be planted to fruit trees...