Word: water-buffalo
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Through natural selection, a host of natural enemies have evolved: think the lion and water-buffalo, the cobra and the mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature’s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence...
...students and police might never agree on noise, alcohol, and public decency laws, a middle ground can be found, so that a Lion King-like “Circle of Life” equilibrium can be reached. And in the vast Serengeti of the Charles River, the lions and water-buffalo can once again be at peace?...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...
...Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot-and an arsenal of small arms...
When the overdressed Pontiac convertible pulled up to the studio gate one morning last week, the guard waved it in without a moment's hesitation. Philippine water-buffalo horns, 30 inches wide, arced away from the radiator; door handles, gearshift and fender ornaments were all pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop...