Word: lariats
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...quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
...faded Levi's waved fistfuls of greenbacks and haggled over the odds with Houston oilmen in embroidered shirts. A volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share of the bets, and undisputed claim to being the best calf roper in the world...
...thrown by hand. It took Altizer 21.5 sec. to do the job. Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious seconds. "That done it," groaned an Altizer fan. "He's lost." At the end, Oliver's winning margin was 7.5 sec. The Texans glumly paid off their bets and demanded a rematch...
...worked with gun and grin and lariat...
...reading. She has, as a critic once said of Edmund Wilson, "pencil, pad and purpose." Six years ago Novelist Ferber worked up some travel notes and impressions into Giant (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952), a novel about Texas that was as close to the mark as a tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna Ferber's Ice Palace will be must reading all the way from Seattle to the DEW line...