Word: ranchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eldon Gerald Smith, a rancher, regarded Census queries as an invasion of his rights. Last spring he refused to fill in his draft questionnaire, on the grounds that there was too much red tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
Calmly Cochran handed his gun to the special prosecutor, calmly surrendered to a deputy sheriff. He was formally charged with murder, formally released on $500 bail. Then Rancher Cochran drove home with his wife...
Last week a third trial was just getting under way; the jury was still being picked. Into Conroe courthouse, into the courtroom strode W. S. Cochran, landowner, husband of the woman White was accused of raping. Up to the prisoner's dock marched Rancher Cochran. He aimed a pistol at White's head, fired. The Negro dropped dead...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
...Douglas R3D-1) flew from San Diego, picked them up, headed back without Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Clark. Again, the plane belted into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened. Airmen knew that for the four from the PBY, the last hell...