Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway-New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York...
...audiences had seen enough fighting during the war, the film industry tacitly agreed to ease off on battle pictures for a while. But last season, after the success of Battleground, Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, and a farce called Francis about a talking army mule, Hollywood decided to put on its uniform...
...vanguard party of two will fly to Lima this morning. The rest will follow on Thursday, June 22. When they split up, they agreed to meet "at the street corner" on June 23--the corner of the dirt road from Paramonga to Huares and a mule trail to the Indian village of Chiquian...
Several miles from Chiquian is Carnicero, Spanish for "The Butcher." The students will hire a 30-mule team to lug their ton of equipment to base camp...
...couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer, skinned it, painted a picture on the hide, and sent it off. The painted hide, complete with head and tail, now hangs in the office where Paepcke is ruminating a new campaign to start next month...