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Besides the professional, gang-style rustlers, amateur poachers pose a problem. They lasso and shoot or knife one or two steers at a time and often butcher them on the spot. Some of the meat goes into their freezers for future backyard barbecues. The rest is bootlegged to retailers. Because this beef is uninspected and carries no "prime" or "choice" stamps, it is usually ground up and sold as hamburger. Most sheriffs lack the manpower to check the rustlers. Instead, ranchers send gun-toting cowboys on range patrols in trucks and even light planes. The Florida Cattlemen's Association...
...myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready to start, if we only had another passenger. In the interval of waiting the conductor read an old Mulligan County Gazette, the engineer and fireman played at stick-knife, and I examined the engine. Here are my notes...
After making these notes, I went and bought a twenty-five-couponed palace-car ticket to Pelican Swamp, for four quids, two drinks, and a bowie-knife; then I sat down and waited half an hour...
...Inch Knife. Many did not. Young members of the J.D.L. tagged along as Russian women from the mission shopped in supermarkets, then heckled them at check-out counters. Others stayed on the heels of a tall diplomat, shouting in Russian: "Poshli domoi!" (Go home) and "Svoboda yevreyam!" (Freedom for Jews). The victim stared ahead, stalked into a Woolworth's and bought a soft drink. They followed, tossing out such juvenile insults as: "You can always tell a Russian by the yellow streak down his back." Some Russians tried a mild response. One told his tormentor: "This...
...intractable men, a key step toward rehabilitation. The big numbers pit a minority against a majority, the guards against the prisoners. Obsessed with "control," guards try to keep inmates divided, often by using the strong to cow the weak. The result is an inmate culture, enforced by fist or knife, that spurs passivity and destroys character...