Word: herd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife and son," Marlin relates. "The boy splashed us on the first pass. The next time he was going to bump the canoe. I held the paddle like a baseball bat and took a swing. He didn't take the second pass. I've seen these ATVs herd canoes like a dog herds sheep...
...every head of cattle at once. Some are bound to stray; others might have fallen to illness or predators. But when Bart and Lilly O'Toole gathered in their stock from winter grazing in Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...
...sermon taped shortly before the scandal broke, Swaggart pleaded with his herd to send more money, claiming that Bakker's fall from grace was causing a drain on funds. He warned that Satan would find ways to thwart God's work. Obviously, Swaggart pays God's salary and He recently demanded a raise. But the Bakker sex scandal did not stop the flow of postal trucks arriving every day at Swaggart's complex, which has its very own zip code...
...dried blood on the leather indicate that some cowpokes have broken their hands trying to impress that cute little filly from down the road in Medicine Hat. Lance Atwood, 33, one of the real cowboys who calls Ranchman's home, can readily separate a fellow cowboy out of the herd of lawyers, accountants and truck drivers. "You come in here on Saturday at midnight," he says with amused tolerance, "and just imagine how many lies are being told...
...other hand, sold itself to Shearson Lehman Bros. for about $1 billion. That will create a brokerage giant with $5.4 billion in capital, second in the U.S. only to Merrill Lynch's $8 billion, and a sales force of 12,300, larger by 800 than the thundering herd...