Word: slaughtering
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What other team could have devised a way to lose in those five fateful years? What other team would have let a runner (Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals) score from first base on a single to win the 1946 world series, or seen its pennant-clinching runner (Luis Aparichio) stumble in the basepaths just before he would score, or let one of its ace hurlers give up a home run to Bucky Dent in the division-deciding game against the Yankees...
...grain sorghum, a livestock feed, almost 80% more than in June 1985. The U.S. is producing a huge excess of milk as well, a problem reduced only partly by the USDA's program this year to pay thousands of dairy farmers some $1.8 billion to send their herds to slaughter or export markets...
...recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins out, there might be a horrific slaughter of blacks...
...cushion the blow to cattle ranchers, the USDA last week began an 18- month program of buying 400 million lbs. of red meat for school lunches, overseas military bases and other uses. But for the next several months, those purchases are not expected to keep pace with the dairy slaughter. Says Rancher Jack Sparrowk, who runs a herd of 25,000 cattle near Sacramento: "The USDA is asleep at the switch...
...ranchers are hoping for relief through the courts. A U.S. district court in Rochester has issued a temporary restraining order against one aspect of the USDA program: a requirement that dairy cows designated for slaughter be branded on the face so that they cannot be secretly sold to other farmers. The Humane Society had sued, claiming that the branding "constitutes cruelty to animals." Meanwhile, the National Cattlemen's Association has sued the USDA in a Texas federal court, hoping to convince the judge that the whole Government program constitutes cruelty to cattle ranchers...