Word: herded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three children drowned when currents washed the car in which they were riding off the road. In Hardin County, a construction worker who decided to take a dip in the floodwaters was swept away and lost. In San Jacinto County, the body of a rancher was discovered among his herd of drowned cattle...
...fertilized by the water, strange stories seemed to spring up overnight. In Liberty a farmer was forced to conduct a submarine cattle drive through snake-infested floodwaters in order to get his herd onto higher ground. In Kingwood a man chased from his house by rising water returned by boat the next day in the hope of finding his missing dog; not far away, the dog -- very much alive -- was bobbing like an apple in 18 ft. of water...
...ongoing effort to try to make the federal laws tougher," she says, "and the states are trying to coordinate their laws." Rangers around the country were heartened by the conviction of Don Lewis, a nationally known crossbow hunter, who had been brazen enough to have himself videotaped attacking a herd of elk -- smack in the middle of Yellowstone. Lewis pleaded guilty, was fined $15,000 and served 30 days of an 18-month prison sentence...
...herdboys wielding sticks tend the skinny cattle the same way young Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela did almost 70 years ago. Walking across the green hills above the village one morning not long ago, Mandela recalled a lesson he learned as a boy. "When you want to get a herd to move in a certain direction," he said, "you stand at the back with a stick. Then a few of the more energetic cattle move to the front and the rest of the cattle follow. You are really guiding them from behind." He paused before saying with a smile, "That...
...students are missing out," Bisson says. Heattributes the low enrollments in Higonnet's classto "a collective misjudgment, a herd instinct...