Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...epidemic was only 300 miles away from his southernmost fences. Cried Bob Kleberg: "This thing has to be stopped even if it is necessary to spend $1 billion in Mexico. I'm in favor of replacing every slaughtered work animal with a free mule or ox, and sending Mexicans the cattle to restock their ranges. It would be cheap at the price...
...winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented...
Willing Loser. Camille was one of twelve children born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent...
...Harvard rooters were short of feminine companionship there was still at least one hand too many on the Crimson side of the field. According to a local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...
...Wait Coulson, star end, had the last word. "Ox DaGrosa said he's going to play from concrete to concrete. Well, if we have anything to say about it, we'll have Holy Cross playing in the nickel seats...