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...Army mule is a horse of another color." McCurdy said. "We are saddled with problems. We must depend upon unbridled ferocity as we take the bit in our teeth and hopefully gallop to victory. Whoa... enough of that...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Army Is Favorite Over Thinclads | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

...point or another, Jack had a white wife and an Indian wife, worked as a huckster of phony patent medicines, was a famous gunslinger, a Cheyenne hero, a scout for Gen. Custer, a drunk, a hermit, a pious churchgoer, a great lover, a mule-skinner, a shopowner. He also toyed with suicide...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Films Closing Off of the American West | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

...high-ceilinged courtroom where the ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greene County, Ala.: Change Comes to the Courthouse | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Young: Dreams and Memories | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...know how to train a mule?" drawls pistol-toting Editor Dan Hicks Jr. between drags on a dead briar pipe. "First you got to hit him over the head with a two-by-four to get his attention. That's what I did to Madisonville. Now they know I'm here and won't go away. As long as I've got a typewriter and a piece of paper, they can't put me out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Guns and a Weekly | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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