Word: herding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corned Beef. Near Denton, N.C., after he noticed an alarming outbreak of butting, kicking and downright foolishness in his cattle herd, Farmer C. P. Ward moseyed through the woods near his pastureland, stumbled across an illicit moonshine still...
Peng: How shall we cope with this herd of beastly despots, traitors and special agents...
...history. Vandenberg not only guided the steps with his eloquent, sometimes florid, always earnest, espousal of U.S. internationalism; he made them possible. At a time when no Democrat stepped forward to take leadership of the nation's foreign-policy program, Vandenberg assumed the burden. He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation. He was talked about for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, but would do nothing whatever to further his own chances. Sitting at night in his Wardman Park Hotel suite, he pecked out on his old typewriter...
...editors free rein, spent most of his time making Old Tack the independent character Gene Howe wanted to be. In his battered Stetsons, his rumpled-and expensive-suits, he soon mastered the look of Texas, then acquired the substance by buying a 15,000-acre cattle ranch and a herd of Herefords. But it was not until Texas mothers and fathers began naming their children "Gene Howe" and cowhands took to calling their ponies Old Tack that he knew, for sure, he had arrived...
...through their outside "connections." For the greater comfort of some of the prisoners, a large radio-phonograph and two refrigerators were smuggled in; so, repeatedly, were prostitutes. And on New Year's Day, the parties staged on prison-made brews assumed such proportions that the guards could only herd the convicts into an open room and watch them drink themselves into hospital cases...