Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Aiming their common hoard of satire at the common herd, the freewheeling improvisationists produce many happy surprises and considerable hilarity...
...Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author Russell discovered that...
...Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal has been stricken. Since the current outbreak began in early November, Ministry of Agriculture officers have killed 42,000 cattle, sheep and pigs, paid out $2,800,000 in compensation to farmers...
Leafing through an account of a herd of camels imported in 1855 for use by the U.S. Army in the deserts of the Southwest, San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr., son of Texas' late pugnacious Congressman, came across a statement that, as a lad, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur had been thoroughly frightened by one of the animals. (Proving of little use, some of the camels were sold to circuses, others allowed to go wild, but the roving herd did not die out for decades.) Fascinated, Amateur Historian Maverick dashed off a note to the general asking...
...fashion women's clothes trademarked Dynasty. He now has a large factory in Kowloon, a showroom in the Peninsula Hotel and exports his clothes around the world. "A lot of guys come out here exploring," says Johnson, "but there's a general reluctance to stay and ride herd on the operation. And that's the only way to make it work...