Word: herd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation they have served themselves. Examples: 1938's Star Farmer, Hunter Roy Greenlaw, found himself at 16, when his father died, running his family farm near Fredericksburg, Va.; he has built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives in a modern ranch-style house. Ray Gene Cinnamon, of Garber, Okla., Star Farmer in 1947, began as a sheepherder, now operates...
...Luck. Still dissatisfied with the quality of his cattle, Joe worked doggedly to improve his herd. A few months later, Joe and Donald Moore drove over to Winchester, Ky. to look around for more cattle. There Joe spotted a pair of beautiful Angus heifers, "the prettiest things you ever saw." But their owner wanted $500 apiece, and father Donald argued that the price was too high for Joe. Joe reluctantly agreed, spent the rest of the day looking at other cattle. That night Joe took his disappointment back to the hotel. Still discussing the two heifers he had liked...
...testing me," says Joe. In any event, his luck soon turned. An Angus cow produced twin heifers and, the next year, one of the Kentucky heifers delivered "as good a bull calf as you ever saw." Thus, mainly from those early purchases, Joe has built up a strong herd of purebred Angus: 26 cows, including six newly bred heifers, two bulls and two nursing calves. Value: about...
Despite such defects, the book is highly useful. It will suggest to the reader that the language of Soviet bureaucracy is simply the herd noise of a pack of exceedingly dull and humorless rogues. It also shows that international Communism has created a linguistic apparatus for a general attack on the whole logical structure of the Western mind-an attack which does not cease when Moscow talks peace...
...maharaja was stripped of a great deal of his wealth after India became a free nation in 1947. Confiscated by Nehru's government were his solid gold and silver temple, a fortress filled with jewels, all his palaces but one, three-fourths of his private possessions. The royal herd of 200 elephants melted down to a mere dozen or so, and only a dozen polo ponies remain from his prewar champion string of 100. Even so, the maharaja still manages to make ends meet...