Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...border patrol has taken to jeeps, guided by an eleven-plane air force, in an effort to stem the tide; it has instituted roadblocks, train searches, and patient patrols in ranch country through the four border states. The wetbacks remain undiscouraged. A good many, smartened up by experience, now try to go as far north as Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, or the apple orchards of Washington and Oregon. Once beyond the patrol's real sphere of activity, a lucky Mexican can live and work for months or years without detection...
...north Laos. But the Communists, with an estimated force of 40,000 men, kept pressing forward, with long lines of Russian-made Molotov trucks following up with supplies. Xiengkhouang's 1,500 civilians were ordered to evacuate. Chinese opium traders, pony-riding Meo tribesmen, iron miners and ranch hands streamed south...
...combination spinet and tiny grand ($1,195), is making a new model this year in honor of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Designed after a desk which belonged to the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Carleton will sell for $1,000. Story & Clark's most striking number: the "ranch-style spinet," cased in knotty pine, and decorated with a carved steer's head, leather straps on the music rack, and ranch brands carved to order on either side...
...cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market. Rancher Gay Copeland, president of the N.C.H.A. last year, sums up the requirements: "He has to be light on his feet, like a dancer. He has to be easy to turn, and a quick thinker. He has to know which way a calf intends to move, then outsmart...
...final, nuzzling gently into a herd of 40 calves under the slack-reined guidance of her regular rider and trainer, Buster Welch, Marion's Girl singled out the liveliest calf of the show. Within 20 seconds she had nudged the calf clear of the herd. In ranch work, this would be all that Marion's Girl would have to do; the calf would be roped and led away. In exhibition work, a pair of "turnback" riders, yelling and waving hats, try to drive the calf back into the herd again. This time, charging back from the whooping...