Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people swim, there will be a job for Newfs. How many sheep need herding in New Jersey...
Down Under, on a sprawling 16,000-acre ranch, Michael Kennedy, 19, gamely tried to brand cattle, herd sheep and, noted an observer, "had a go at everything." But what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that...
...salesman, will try to track down any lost pet in the San Francisco Bay Area-and to date has been retained to find an errant parakeet and a strayed horse, as well as hundreds of Fidos and felines. The strapping ex-Marine is aided by Paco, an old English sheep dog who wears a deerstalker hat and slurps champagne, and by a legion of kindly kids whom he calls, naturally the Baker Street Irregulars...
...process, Schmandt-Besserat believes, evolved in four stages. In the first, which ran from about 8500 B.C.-the date of the oldest tokens found-to around 3500 B.C., the small (up to 5 cm., or 2 in., in diameter) cones, disks, spheres and pellets represented such commodities as sheep, jugs of oil, bread or clothing and were used by merchants and others in the Middle East to keep records. In the second stage, merchants shipping goods from one place to another began enclosing tokens in sealed clay balls known as bullae, which were broken open upon delivery so the shipment...
They sidestep. They skirt. They make gestures of love. They are sheep in shepherds' clothing...