Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitiful handful of his old friends battled the policemen, and 16 men were killed in the brutal little fray. As rifles barked, an old, grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...
...beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...
Stampede to the Stockpens. The loudest cries of pain last week came from the cattlemen. Nationwide, the on-the-hoof price for beef cattle of all grades has dropped about 30% since the post-Korea high last spring. A fortnight ago the Omaha cattle market saw its worst break in three years, as choice steers slipped to 23.4? a lb.; a year ago, such steers brought 34?. The basic reason for the cattle-price decline is that beef animals are in long supply; by Agriculture Department estimates, the nation's cattle population has grown some 20% in the past...
...swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh...
...this mean that the law of supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates...