Word: lassoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were particularly interested in the line: "As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground." Up here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...
...Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the 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...
...people of Ecuador," said Senator-elect Galo Plaza Lasso, 41, "are tired of traditional parties. That's why they voted...
Last week the great wolf was in a political trap. The police announced, after he had been missing four days, that they held Lasso as a confessed conspirator in a plot to kill President-elect Miguel Alemán and his prospective chief minister, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano...
...approached by a man who wanted to buy two grenades for "well-digging." In no time the cops claimed to have caught him handing the grenades to two torpedoes. They said the torpedoes confessed they had been hired to use the grenades on Alemán and Serrano. Lasso, they said, also confessed after only a brief chat...