Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is familiar enough. Marshfield's "distraction," as Updike fans have already guessed, took the form of a too-enthusiastic ministering to the sheep of his flock. And if Marshfield's wife and mistresses are puppets, at least they are well-carved, and skillfully handled...
...story of recruits giving precision orders on how they would like to have their hair cut was fed to me by recruiters. It was a total lie-we were given uniform half-minute sheep shearings-no choice whatsoever...
When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
...Explosive Weapon. In military parlance the FAEW, is a cluster bomb, which when it explodes, sends out a massive shock wave that destroys both people and vegetation. In October 1972, an Air Force officer told the American Ordnance Association. "You may have seen some of the pictures of the sheep that were in the foxholes when the FAEWs hit and it didn't do their innards Any good." The officer might have added that the FAEWs were died against people in Indochina and not just sheep...
...went along for a test ride, then accepted the plane as a trade-in for $1,300. After the flight, Nouhan learned to his horror that the pilot had no license. The auto dealer even gave a Michigan farmer $1,000 in trade for a menagerie, sight unseen, of sheep, cows and chickens...