Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerful Australian and New Zealand meat packers as well as the packing unions sought to stop Delfino because shipping of beef on the hoof imperiled Australia's frozen-meat export trade. Delfino cleared this hurdle after conferences with the government, paid Auckland dock wallopers triple and quadruple wages to load coal, and then got steaming. Twenty-eight days and one hurricane later, he landed in San Diego, minus 107 cattle and one crew member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen...
Dead Heat. In Melbourne, Australia, research uncovered the scattered remains of the great race horse Carbine (1890-1914), one hoof at Victoria Racing Club, one hoof in possession of an English duke, the body skeleton at Melbourne's National Museum, the head at the Auckland, N.Z. War Memorial Museum, the hide as upholstery of the president's chair at the Auckland Racing Club...
...many cattlemen the proof of cattle quality is not in blue ribbons but in butchering. Last week 296 steers that had entered the judging rings live were rejudge in the cooler. Results: of 81 steers that took honors on the hoof, only 33 met the test as meat (chief disqualification: excessive fat, too little lean). The top carcass honors went to a lean-hipped 749-lb. Aberdeen-Angus, entered by Larry McKee, 17, of Varna, Ill., that had not won even an honorable mention in the ring...
...turn out every month. Eventually, the boys got bored themselves. "I didn't get tired of it," said J. P. (Days of Wine and Roses) Miller. "I just couldn't stand it." ¶ The critics were too rough, flailed original dramas more harshly than run-of-the-hoof westerns. Robert Alan Arthur (Man on a Mountain Top) denounced "an incredibly brutal dismissal" of a recent production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by the New York Times's J. P. Shanley: "I think this bum thinks he's still writing obituaries ... It will...
...course I mean America," snapped Satan, tapping his hoof impatiently. "We've put a lot of work into the churches, and I'm not at all sure it's paying off the way it should. Who's Mr. Protestant these days...