Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their bodies already so malnourished that they are easy prey to diseases ranging from measles to meningitis to pneumonia. Often they find it too difficult to eat or drink with out assistance." At least 3 million nomads-mostly Fulani and Tuareg tribesmen-have lost their entire herds of cattle, sheep, goats and even camels. Though many nomads have begun returning to their traditional grazing lands, it will take them at least five years to rebuild their stocks...
...work for the farmers where we have worked for years, husbands and wives can't work together, we have no say as to where we go. We can't complain. We are told to keep out mouths shut or we won't get an assignment. We are treated like sheep. We have no power at all, there is no such thing as freedom of speech. There is no election, there is no way for us to say what we like or don't like...
...leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully equipped her stall with soothing Mozart on stereo. And that's not all. There is someone special in the winner's life too: a sheep, called simply le mouton, with whom Allez France has shared her musical tastes, and her paddock box, for years...
...every kitchen chimney on her tenants' houses. Even so, she observed with her usual wryness, "they only give me the thinnest and oldest." Other seigneurial privileges included the right to keep bitches, forbidden to the Sarkese for fear that a proliferation of dogs might drive sheep over the island's 300-ft. cliffs into the English Channel. That noble prerogative caused one of the rare Sark rebellions against Dame Sibyl's authority. The islanders overruled her prohibition, and bitches are now allowed on Sark-provided they are spayed, of course...
...settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task-for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine's Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands...