Word: ox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of them sentimental, a few tragic and at least one--the story of a terrier male who abruptly becomes attractive to other males--as odd as anything in the Decameron. Herriot recalls that in his student days domestic animals were customarily listed in descending order of importance: horse, ox, sheep, pig, dog. In the latest work, he has brought his favorites to the front and given them a new leash on life...
...Dwight). Stopping for a Big Mac in Singapore, says a young customer, is "like walking into a bit of America." Last October in Kenya's rugged Rift Valley at the foot of a remote volcano, nomadic Maasai gathered for a rare tribal ceremony. Young warriors' heads were shaved. An ox was ritually slaughtered. And at the edge of the encampment, a concessionaire sold Coke by the bottle...
Election officials said peak voting in the eight-hour voting day normally occurs in the early afternoon, but unusually large numbers of voters were standing in line before the schoolhouse polls opened. Millions walked, rode in ox carts or took ferry boats tocast ballots in one of the most importantelections in Philippine history...
...NIck Lawrence as Pandarus. As written by Shakespeare, Thersites provides the audience with a running commentary cum critique of the main players in the tragedy. Pondering on what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad, a lizzard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a toe. I would not care, but to be Menelaus, I woud conspire against destiny." Scratching...
Unfortunately, the antidotes most likely to cure the nation of its deficit ills--a slowdown in military spending and increased taxes--are the the remedies the President is least willing to prescribe. When Administration spokesmen said that in the current budget everyone's ox would get gored, they omitted to mention the sacred cow defense, now tentatively pencilled in for a $42 billion spending increase...