Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more time to explore the possibilities of a breakthrough, even though Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina had found no hint of one in a week-long visit to Moscow. Besides, Tokyo has built up a thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause until after Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Moscow this month...
...model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle man." His successful misadventures are ultimately summed up in a bestseller entitled Doing Nothing, which consists of 200 blank pages...
...only 80 have come off the line since last May. Conakry has yet to get a taste of the milk from cows at the Russian-built dairy at Ditinn, where mosquito nets muffle the lowing of the herd. A West German slaughterhouse in Conakry kills no more than one steer a month, though its capacity is 40 tons of beef a day. Even the East German printing plant-once humming with Sékou's propaganda-has been reduced to printing labels for imported Chinese Communist beer...
...rodeo's five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts...
...term, dating back to a 17th century British campaign in Holland, is a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the taps." Before it was blown up into a musical extravaganza, the tattoo was merely the nightly drum signal beaten through the streets to shutter the bars and steer the troops back to their quarters...