Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers to blow up the sheep and the goats, the oxen and asses of the rebellious Arabs in an effort to cut off their chief food source. He inspected a fleet of armored cars for hill-fighting...
Thousands of goat-skin-coated, wool-embroidered peasants danced and ate roast oxen to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Greater Rumania. The long festival ended last week. As a crowning touch, seven-year-old King Mihai was gravely elected President of the National Jockey Club...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...
...bright miracle of Bethlehem the Slavs were a nation of lithe, swarthy wanderers who cultivated the land northeast of the Carpathians. Fearfully they turned to dark hills for sullen, reverberating commandments of Perun the Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf...
...from the monkey glands of Mrs. Atherton's Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced...