Word: lariats
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S.M.U., which also boasts credit courses in weightlifting, badminton and the modern dance, heard rumors last week that the rival University of Texas was stealing a march by offering a course in lariat-throwing, but there proved to be no cause for alarm. Higher education in Texas had not yet advanced that...
...movie's most spectacular moments are provided by a running noose-and-lariat battle between an enraged rhinoceros and members of the expedition mounted in a truck. At one point the rhino gets the upper hand; charging the truck, he topples it over on its side as if it were a baby Austin. Another highlight: a series of submarine close-ups of gigantic hippos lolling on the sandy bottom of a transparent pool. Weirdest animal is the aardvark, which has a squawk like a maddened calliope and the look of a dispirited rabbit sired by an anteater...
When a hard-pressed cattleman commented, "La Frutera's rainmaker is capturing our clouds with a net!" many were inclined to agree that some kind of cloud-rustling was indeed going on. Local newspapers ran cartoons that showed Pilot Silverthorne as an airborne cowboy herding clouds with a lariat...
...ground. While the calf still kicked in a cloud of dust, the vaqueros knelt down, swiftly branded it with the King Ranch's "running W," inoculated it against disease (blackleg), castrated it. Even as the calf scrambled to its feet, bawling with fear and pain, the lariat of Bob Kleberg or a vaquero had already tripped another calf to be branded...
...limbered his lariat Hoffa went on talking soothingly. It had cost a fellow teamster chieftain, Dave Beck, endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...