Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mercenaries tiptoed onto a beach near the capital city of Moroni. They were led by French-born Colonel Robert Denard, 50, a notorious soldier of fortune who has left his bloody footprints in countless African battles in the past 23 years. As foretold, Denard was accompanied by a German shepherd dog. Within a few hours, Denard and his gang had shot up Soilih's bodyguard, put the dictator under arrest and accepted the surrender of the Comoran army, a ragtag force of 200 men who had not fired a shot. The coup touched off a week of celebration that...
...only animal at the '78 Biennale. The place was a barnyard, rich with the odors of dung and urine-soaked straw. The Israeli pavilion was converted into a fold, with 17 ewes and one ram, their backs smeared with blue by the artist, Menashe Kadishman, a former kibbutz shepherd. The azure blots, "drifting apart or coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey...
...people are up in arms," said Illinois Republican State Representative Don Totten. "They're telling government to stop and get out of our lives." Said Democratic Congressman Jim Jones of Oklahoma, who is trying to shepherd a $15 billion tax-cut program through the House: "Those middle-income folks at $10,000 to $30,000 are on the verge of revolt. They want tax relief?and they want it now. They...
...very picture of an old New Hampshire sheep farmer, complete with white Lincolnesque beard and a bun of graying hair tucked under a shepherd's cap, turns out to be Bob Richardson, a former candymaker from the Atlantic City, N.J., area. Richardson gave up the trade to become a sawmill worker after some health food fanatics convinced him that candy is poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them...
...cheap, too, at least compared with other large livestock. A good animal can be bought for $40. In summer they help keep mowing costs down. Regularly bred ewes add one or two lambs a year, which can be either sold for meat or used to increase the flock. The shepherd can expect to obtain about 10 Ibs. of fleece per sheep a year, which can either be spun or sold for an average price...