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Word: sheeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the kangaroos-and actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Nymph of Nullarbor | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Frank Rizzo admitted in an interview that he had always kept his files in "good shape" on the "jokers" who "infiltrate" and manipulate protest groups. Rizzo argued that tough surveillance tools are necessary in a democracy to protect well-meaning people who might otherwise be "led to slaughter like sheep-you know, just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Here's Looking at You | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Pope Leo XIII treasured it as a gift. Ironically, the noble Roquefort cheese comes from one of France's wildest regions. Indeed, the Causse du Larzac in the Massif Central is a limestone plateau so austere and stony that it is beloved only by gazing tourists and grazing sheep. Confident that the isolation would last, the Roquefort cheese industry has long encouraged shepherds in the area to enlarge their flocks. Since 1966, the additional flood of ewe's milk has tripled, swelling the output of the blue-veined cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Guns or Cheese? | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...Shmaruk's, and Edward Murray's distinctive Catholic styles. If Catholics are to maintain a sense of oneness with their brothers and sisters and a sense of continuity with a rich past only now being rediscovered, they must try and come together, not in the hope of becoming identical sheep, but in the hope of finding new symbols and images to replace those superficial but comforting ones that all Catholics have lost...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: From Catechism to Community | 11/30/1971 | See Source »

Tommy is more likable than he sounds. He is a Chaplinesque waif who collects other waifs: an English sheep dog named Arnold that seems to be on tranquilizers; an old ham actor who may or may not have toured with Eugene O'Neill's father in The Count of Monte Cristo; a grave-eyed, peach-complexioned girl (Kathleen Dabney) who is wrestling with a cello case full of shoplifted goodies when Tommy meets her in a Bloomingdale's ladies' room. The play is episodic, rather like an urban picaresque novel. Some of the encounters and adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Holden Caulfield's Return | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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