Word: hoof
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...technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport in New York, 51 mules have been arrested on the hoof: suspects are X-rayed and, if they do not confess, put in a hospital with a bedside commode and two patient customs guards. "The packets often come out like machine gun bullets, with a loud report," says Customs Inspector Peter di Rocco. A mule commonly ingests upwards of a pound...
...boatman's clothes, but as a naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical but is always darkened by tragedy and disappointment. At the end of the story, Reva meditates by the lock house in which she and Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked in the soft mud, but Reva kept watching the swimming moon-the same moon she knew Clinton watched with his cincinnate whore. "She realizes the hopelessness of her desires, and sets fire to the lockhouse in an act of despair and rejection...
Pending the Administration's predicted upturn of the economy, about all that U.S. farmers can do is pray for plagues and bad weather overseas. Midwest cattle producers have no grudge against their counterparts in Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports. This could mean some $100 million in unexpected sales for American cattlemen. Says Ronald Knutson, an economist at Texas A&M: "If there is a major crop failure some place in the world, we'll look back on this as a good...
Harrison's humor in Warlock puts the wrong man in the trench coat. Lundgren is a poet, not a flatfoot, a satyr trying his hoof at logic and deduction. Like most literary fools since Don Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell...
...crowded out of favorite hideaways by an expanding human population, no more than about 2,000 of the animals still roam freely in the wild. The dark, white-stockinged creatures are the world's largest wild cattle. Fully grown, a male gaur may measure 6 ft. from hoof to shoulder and weigh nearly 2,000 Ibs. Perhaps wisely, no one has really ever bothered to domesticate the beasts...