Word: oxen
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...builders, real estate men and politicians of all persuasions objected to the housing measure, and Southern civil rights foes viewed their discomfiture with undisguised glee. "For the first time," chortled North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, "we have a bill which proposes that other than Southern oxen are to be gored...
...ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...
Yemeni tribesmen in the small and remote village of Haradh last week lopped off the heads of two oxen as sacrifices for peace. Yet the 55 delegates gathered for truce talks on a nearby plain seemed no closer to settling Yemen's three-year civil war than they were when they first convened three weeks ago. Reported an Arab newsman: "It is the dialogue of the deaf. Both sides talk, but neither side listens...
...rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly by driving them into the freezing water, then swimming after them and wrestling them ashore...
...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...