Word: rancher
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...Frank Dobie, professor of literature, rancher, glorifier of the open range, accepted an invitation to Cambridge University, announced he would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
...afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate...
...fishing industry was making money galore. But the 125,000 U.S. fishermen had something else that was new-prestige. For the first time since Plymouth Rock, the fisherman was absolutely vital to the nation's food supply, as needed and respected as the rancher, the farmer...
...Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free...
...John Carroll is a hairy-chested man with the saltiest vocabulary in Columbia County, N.Y. Born in a railroad car in Wichita-his father was trekking to California to settle as a cattle rancher-Painter Carroll studied for a spell at San Francisco's old Mark Hopkins Art Academy, finished two years of an engineering course at the University of California (playing fullback on the football team). On the side he punched cattle. After six months in a Cincinnati art school he joined the Navy in World...