Word: hereford
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...have never stopped bragging about my old Missouri hometown, but there have always been boosters in Kansas City who thought I bragged about the wrong things--barbecue and the cow on the top of the American Hereford Association headquarters, for instance, instead of Continental restaurants and similarly sophisticated cultural attractions. I liked the motto Kansas City had when I was a boy: "The Heart of America." The boosters liked the motto "More Boulevards Than Paris, More Fountains Than Rome...
While sipping Reverse-Scriptase martinis, Lori and I glanced outside to see the hundreds of beautiful Hereford mommies, glorious and dumb as posts under the great Canadian sky, chewing vitaminized, antibioticized alfalfa while inside each of them our own future little fan clubs incubated. "Look, over there, the one with a white patch on the eye, No. 388--that's yours, honey!" Bliss...
...flight-control-division member who played a small part in the Apollo 13 rescue, and I am looking forward to seeing the film. But I was disappointed that the caption for your photograph of the real-life Apollo 13 crew misidentified Ken Mattingly as Jack Swigert. JOHN A. RIORDON Hereford, Arizona...
...signs on the street lamps said, "Tow Zone. No Stopping Any Time." So RTLĂept walking. The two miles turned into one and a half and then into one. We turned off Beacon Street onto Kenmore, Hereford, and finally, Bolyston. The crowds were still in the stands, cheering, almost four hours after the race had been won. I stepped across the finish line with an unofficial time of seven hours, fifty-nine minutes, thirty seconds...
...spurned suitor, no matter how devoted, has his limits. For 76 days, through the mating season and beyond, a love-struck moose pursued his beloved Hereford cow, Jessica, around a Shrewsbury, Vt., pasture as thousands of delighted tourists gawked, clicked and bought souvenir T shirts. The decidedly odd couple never coupled, of course; he was affectionate, if not ardent, but she was shy. Last week Bullwinkle gave up and headed back into the woods. He had lost his antlers, as young moose do at this time of year, and with them his libido. Will he return next season? Not likely...