Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just the other night this happened in Winthrop House, which is usually so crowded around the dinner hour that you need a shoe horn to get in, when suddenly Bob Baggott swooped in from behind the salad bar and jumped on the glass. First down, Harvard...
ALLIGATORS. Valued by shoe and handbag manufacturers, the American alligator seemed headed for extinction when it was placed on the federal endangered-species list a decade ago. Since then, largely protected from humans, the reptiles are making a comeback with a vengeance. Their numbers, estimated at only 52,000 in 1970, now exceed 600,000. Alligators have invaded populated areas, leading to worries that they may attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf...
...your philosophic neighbor." Inevitably, Dole got in a sharp dig at what he calls Carter's "equivocation." A common line: "He has taken so many stands on 14B [the right-to-work law], the next time they ask him, he'll probably say it's his shoe size...
Some movies, made especially for the undemanding, easy-living days of summer, contrive to linger on after the season has passed. Finding them in a local theater is like shaking forgotten grains of beach sand out of a shoe. A few survivors still on view...
...enjoys great popularity among some farmers; so too does Kansan Robert Dole. The President has also won points with farmers by urging a large increase in estate-tax exemptions to benefit owners of family farms. Further, Carter lost some standing among farmers two weeks ago for doing a soft-shoe shuffle on embargoes, at first ruling them out, then saying that he would permit them in the event of a catastrophic crop failure...