Word: cowboying
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Christos Soillis, alias Felix, poised the cowboy boot in midair as he examined the sole. "Shoemaking!" he snorted. "The worst...
...point, he was in the process of slicing off the heel of a massive cowboy boot. "Men's shoes," he said. "They take a long time. This one here needs the soles cut down and new ones built up. It'll take four or five hours." Felix said he would charge...
They cheer le cowboy in le western, eat le snack (pronounced znag) or le sandwich in le living room or le drugstore, and sip un cocktail or un Scotch sur les rocks at le party au le weekend. Now, in a new effort to knockouter "the most obvious instances of language degradation and to protect the citizen from possible harm," a new law, Number 75-1349, forbids the use of foreign words in advertising, business contracts, TV and radio programs and the like...
Died. William A. Blakley, 77, conservative Texas Democrat who twice filled an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate; in Dallas. Sometimes called "Cowboy Bill" for his early ranch-hand days in Oklahoma, later "Dollar Bill" in recognition of his status as a self-made centimillionaire who with his wife gave $100 million to a foundation that he helped to create, Blakley was first appointed to the Senate for eleven weeks in 1957. He left saying, "I shall go back to my boots and saddle and ride toward the Western sunset," but came galloping back in 1961 for another six months...
...wanted to do this for 16 years. It started out like when you say you want to be a fireman, a cowboy, a baseball player. I just got stuck there...