Word: herd
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Paul Newman and Lee Marvin are rounders scuffling through Mexico, trying to get together a herd of cattle for a rodeo back in the States. While driving down a street in Nogales, they spot a Mexican who has been giving them a good deal of trouble. Newman jumps out of the car, grabs a rock and tosses it far wide of the puzzled Mexican...
...Anderson, on the sunset side of 50, has to get his herd of cattle to market. The hands he hired for the drive ran out on him when they heard about the gold strike upriver. There is not a man left in the territory to help him, so Wil turns to boys-eleven eager, callow youngsters. He teaches them a little about roping and riding trail. He hires a black man named Jebediah Nightlinger to tend the chuck wagon. Then, uneasy with the entire proposition, he sets...
...there, all right," said Hunter Ron Sells, insisting he had spotted a white girl running wild with a herd of kangaroos across the Nullarbor desert in southwestern Australia. "When she saw us, she watched us for a few minutes, and then she dashed off with the 'roos into the scrub...
...Thundering Herd...
...competitors in the brokerage business, Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Smith must often seem as overwhelming as the herd of stampeding bulls in its now famous television commercial. It dominates the securities field with its widespread distribution system, geared to serve the needs of small investors. It has moved so vigorously into Government-bond trading, commodities, real estate, mutual funds and even economic consulting that such non-stock-market ventures account for more than half of its revenues. Now Merrill Lynch has thundered into the lead on the financial world's most exclusive turf: investment banking...