Word: herding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chou Enlai, too, reflected Peking's second thoughts about the economic impact of the people's communes: he made no mention of the once highly touted scheme to herd city dwellers as well as peasants into the communes. And he was clearly fearful that China's hard-pressed citizens in the cities might begin to ask why, if the countryside was producing such vast quantities of food, their rice bowls got no fuller. "It is also possible," warned Chou in what would have been heresy in a lesser official, "that output increases of certain industrial and agricultural...
...officially held by a Boston University freshman named John Thomas, who last month propelled himself 7 ft. 1¾ in. into space. Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House like a herd of nail-tailed wallabies. In the second week of their eight-week U.S. visit, the Russian dancers proved that they can leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they gave Manhattan audiences their first look...
...about time the men around here, if indeed they are men at all, stopped letting the girls over at Radcliffe push them around. Every Saturday night 1100 Cliffies in search of respectable entertainment herd a similar number of Harvardian sheep into Boston. Most of them attend movies, but the simple fact that the poor dolt had to trek into Boston with his date seems to compensate for the vulgarity of mere flicking...
...with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does...
...wolves from Canada crossed on the ice. Purdue and Park Service biologists, some of whom have braved the island's fierce and lonely winter to study the working of nature's balance, report that the wolves' system is to cut a single moose out of a herd and keep nipping at him day after day until he weakens. Sometimes it takes a week. In crusted snow that supports wolves, the most formidable moose cannot escape. But deep, soft snow is a refuge for moose; wolves flounder in it helplessly, and there the moose can turn...