Word: livestock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guerrillas and the Katyusha launcher had gone. Instead the shells slammed down across the area and exploded inside the compound of a battalion of Fijian peacekeepers, where more than 600 refugees had been sheltering for a week, hanging out their laundry on the fences and tethering their livestock nearby...
...came as a shock to a 58-year-old Croat electrical engineer, who told his story last week. The skilled workman had been spared internment because he was needed to help maintain power lines. One morning in June 1992, he says, his crew was checking a line near the livestock farm when they abruptly halted. Off the road, where the oddly green patch now sits, was a large excavation with parts of clothed corpses protruding, and with a yellow bulldozer parked nearby...
...year-old Muslim who worked at the livestock farm near the pit recalls his own jolt one morning, after one of the rare nights in early June when he was not forced to sleep on the premises. On previous occasions, the former truck driver reports, he could hear the sound of the bulldozer working late at night, but he had thought nothing much of it. On the morning in question, he was returning to the job from home and stumbled across a pool of blood on the entrance road...
...PHONE CALLS CAME, THE Voice was low and menacing, the messages cruel. I've cut out Amy's tongue. Sometimes Susan Billig clung to the line, pleading for news of her daughter who had disappeared in 1974 at the age of 17. Amy will be sold off at a livestock auction. At other times, the mother hung up. But the connection was never really severed. You know who this is. Whether the calls came seven times in a night or once in several months, the Voice haunted Billig every hour of every day for nearly 22 years, jolting her awake...
...holds a Ph.D. in animal science and a teaching post at Colorado State University. She is well known not only on the medical-conference circuit for her insights into Asperger's but also in the meat-packing business for her advice on the humane treatment and disposal of livestock. Among her contributions is a design for a curved slaughterhouse ramp that is said to reduce animal anxiety by keeping hidden the high-tech poleax that dispatches the critters...