Word: steers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these reasons that the Looking Glass Runaway Center in Chicago attempts to steer its runaways clear of the authorities. Says Counselor Anne Fortune: "We feel it's inappropriate to report these kids, unless legally necessary, because it's usually the idea of authority that they're running away from in the first place...
Although he was the only journalist at Wounded Knee formally charged with conspiracy to incite riot, Oliphant volunteered that "in a broader context" he had been arrested to "frighten away others or steer them away" from first-person coverage of the siege of the South Dakota town...
...means to be a woman. In 1969 we suffered from a footlose uncertainty about the goals of Women's Liberation, so we clutched at the movement for self-definition. And we used that political identity as a crutch for a queasy feeling personal identity to hang on to and steer by. We felt plagued by our inability to define 'woman,' frustrated by the fact that we could say only what 'woman' was not. But definition limits prematurely, and I think it was precisely the de-definition that prevented Women's Liberation from solidifying into a staple. It rendered the movement...
Troubled Pampas. Not even the traditionally quiet pampas are safe. Thomas Rattagan, 53, a rancher not far from Buenos Aires, predicted that at least part of the estancia that he has worked for 25 years will be expropriated. "A delegation of Peronistas came and demanded I give them a steer for their political fiesta," he said nervously. "Last time around, in the 1950s, I would have thrown them out. But this time there is no choice. I have to admit that I gave them the animal. You see, nobody controls Peronist youth...
...operation is typical. Stratford's three yards are concentrated within a 30-mile radius, in keeping with Gow's belief in concentrated locations, and they feed a total of 150,000 head. (By December Gow plans to expand to 250,000.) The yards fatten a 650-lb. steer at the rate of 3.1 lbs. per day. Five months and some 490 lbs. later, the steer is shipped off to a packer. "It's a big operation," Gow says. "We have vets and nutritionists; the cattle are checked twice a day. We have a good drainage system, which...