Word: stray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proxy fight. The good guys and bad guys unlimber their six-shooters in ads in the newspapers' financial sections. The sheriff (Securities and Exchange Commission) tries to preserve law and order and to protect the widows' and orphans' stock. Each side ropes and brands countless stray cattle (small stockholders) before the big roundup (the proxy count). At "High Noon" (the annual stockholders' meeting) somebody has to bite the dust...
...play is about two sisters, their orphaned nephew, their colored maid who pretends she is an Indian, and several concerned villagers--concerned because the meek, faded, slightly demented sister has run away from home (with sister, maid, and a stray retired judge), away from the other sister, the fierce faded sister, who wanted to make a big business out of the meek one's only possession: a secret--a recipe for an effective medicine, made from herbs. The fugitives flee to a tree house; in a few speeches about themselves they overcome some of their loneliness...
...stray goats or cattle can be seen wandering on any of the roads to slow up vehicles or to nibble at young seedlings. I did not set my eyes on any horse-drawn or bullock-drawn vehicle...
...campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked a member of the Teachers College Board of Illinois...
Memphis' radio station WDIA can make some rare claims: it finds jobs for unemployed, picks up hospital bills, supports a home for crippled children, hands out scholarships, even locates stray mules for farmers. For its pains, WDIA tops every station in the mid-South in ratings and advertisers. What makes it all the more unusual is that it is a "Negro station"-the biggest and oldest U.S. station beamed at Negro listeners...