Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lexicographer Eric Partridge [TIME, July 31] has either been given a bum steer or someone is conning him along...
...Rancho Mil Condones in the state of Mexico, a sweating vaquero roped a bawling steer out of a herd and tethered it to a fence post. While a U.S. livestock inspector examined the beast's mouth, a Mexican technician shaved a spot on its hide, injected 2 cc of vaccine and clipped a tag to its ear. The two men were agents of the Mexico-U.S. commission for the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, known in Spanish as aftosa. They were winding up the last series of injections in a three-year campaign to rid Mexico...
...months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...look far for ideas for his expertly drawn studies. "Every day," he says, "I saw a good accident picture on the front page of the newspaper." His vigorously abstract paintings might be interpreted by some as safety-first posters, but he denies any desire "to preach," tries to steer clear of "the morbid aspects of an accident" by painting his traffic victims without any trace of gore...
...think that this statement of policy has been a good editorial star to steer by, then...