Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grower John Lye began losing about 10% of his sheep to coyotes. When he tried shooting them, they started attacking at night. Says Lye: "They have an uncanny instinct for trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves. "For two weeks, they were effective," says Lye. "Then the coyotes figured them out. They...
...cussedness is legendary. It will kick its master when it is annoyed, and spit cud at curious bystanders. Despite its vile temper, the camel is prized for its ability to withstand searing desert temperatures with a bagful of survival tricks. Among them are its unusual abilities to retain water in the bloodstream (with the help of high concentrations of a special kind of albumin), sweat so little that its skin almost always feels dry, and keep out heat with a coat of thick...
...heard from again. The obscurity of the office prompted then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt to complain that it was "not a stepping stone to anything but oblivion," and FDR's first vice president. John Nance Garner, to say that the post was worth less than "a pitcher of warm spit...
...Lowells coped, through their writing, with the difficulty of being a legacy of the "American aristocracy." The world expected rigidly defined behavior and achievement from the Lowells, but at the same time it chewed and swallowed those Lowells who did conform to its strangely-conceived notion of aristocracy. It spit back only the truly talented, individual and interesting morsels like James, Amy and Robert...
...musical out of the nostalgic past has its ardent fans, and Brigadoon addicts will doubtless be entranced by the show's reappearance at Broadway's Majestic Theater. This revival is handled with tender loving care-and professional spit and polish. Brigadoon's spindly, implausible book was a glaring weakness, even in 1947, but that scarcely matters to the true believers who embrace the show as a dewy fantasy...