Word: oxen
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...million tons of food aid this year, but a bumper harvest in the country's fertile east has halved the requirements for 1986. In the country's inaccessible western provinces of Darfur and Kordofan, however, famine still afflicts hundreds of thousands. Farm families ate their seed and slaughtered their oxen just to stay alive. When the rains came, they had nothing to plant. Because roads in the area were washed out by the summer rains, relief groups had to organize costly flights to reach the famine victims...
He’s a man now; worldly good looks, superbly talented, strappingly self-assured, oxen-tough. But now is now and that was then. Then was his shy turn—nine years old, innocent, substantial (“well-fed,” he jokes), vaguely self-aware—the coincidental genesis of a baseball career. That, a foggy Los Angeles daydream, was when Schuyler Mann simply loved the game...
...Known locally as the "Wies'n" (after the Theresienwiese, the open area where the festival is held), Oktoberfest is a convivial debauch that sees the consumption of some 6 million liters of beer, 300,000 pork sausages, 600,000 roast chickens and 80 oxen. The revelry takes place in huge marquees, each with its own character, from the backpacker-friendly and decidedly raucous Hofbr?u marquee, to the folksy Augustiner tent?the place to be if you want to see thigh-slapping locals in traditional costume?to the exclusive K?fer enclosure, which is catered by Munich's smartest delicatessen and aimed...
Hebei province, China's breadbasket, is a long way from Douglas Trett's mechanized, 4,000-acre corn, cotton, nut and wheat farm, north of Fresno, Calif. "I just came back from a field where a man was working barefoot with oxen," Trett says in a tone of wonderment, as if he has just returned from another planet...
...most of the would-be miners and their families hunkered down for the winter, while a two-man scouting party forged westward for help. Returning in late January, the scouts found that one man had died. The rest of the group survived by burning their wagons and slaughtering the oxen. The valley got its name, according to legend, when one woman looked back as the party was leaving and said, "Goodbye, Death Valley...