Word: herding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hooton, Germany is "the regue elephant of the herd of national pachyderms, and it baffles veterinary skill to discover the basic cause of its homicidal mania." It evils have so permeated the present generation of the country that "nothing short of a complete obliteration of the German state" can destroy its influence...
...score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia's .Coach Lou Little, flabbergasted that a cripple had tamed the most formidable herd of Lions he has turned out in years...
...Pards, the Fall round-up is hyar agin. The herd's a-gatherin' 'round the old corral jest like she allus has. Seems it's purty near the same thing every year-lot o' the old 'uns ain't 'round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes...
Hers is one of the liveliest books yet written on labor. Result is a picture of the trampling herd as seen by a talented family black sheep-and two ironies that Authoress Strauss did not foresee. Irony No. 1: Her leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...
...Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...