Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Globe's reporter made two untrue assertions: First, she reported that Fairbank's effort publicly to "exorcise Jim Thomson's phobia about sheep dung" related to my mishandling of a sheep-dung lecture-slide back in 1958 when I was his teaching assistant. Second, she reported that I was not even present at the Chairman's valedictory lecture...
...reporter got the sheep-dung story all wrong. What had happened, back in 1958, related to my then lofty position of audio-visual aide in Fairbank's famous course, "Rice Paddies." That meant that I ran the slide projector in the last ten minutes of each lecture. Fairbank would give me a box of slides he had selected and arranged; I would then show them...
...morning the subject was the nomadic life of Mongolia--therefore endless slides of yaks. yurts, camels, and the like; also, toward the beginning, a picture of multiple mounds of dried sheep dung which, Fairbank explained, the Mongols used for fuel. Imagine my consternation when, several slides later, there appeared on the screen a precise duplicate of the sheepdung vista. Fairbank once again patiently explained the significance of the mounds, but added to the audience of 300, "I am frankly at a loss as to how to account for Mr. Thomson's infatuation with sheep dung...
GATES OF THE ARCTIC. Above the Arctic Circle in the central Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic is the crown jewel of Alaska's proposed parklands, a haunting, austere land of towering peaks and unspoiled wilderness. White, curly-horned Ball sheep, caribou, wolves and other game are found in the park. Nunamiut Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians venture into its vastness to hunt these animals for food...
Future modifications and money saving programs under study by Food Services include the possible replacement of the frozen liquid concentrate coffee, known to be labeled "sheep dip," now used by most dining halls. In its place would go coffee similar to that now served at Adams House. While the ground coffee is overwhelmingly more popular than the liquid concentrate, the capital investment for machines and additional labor may nip the proposal...