Word: cowboying
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...Humphrey Bogart and James Bond. Bogart demonstrates the belief that a man can be tough but tender, ugly but sexy. The Bond syndrome suggests a yearning for the old-fashioned action hero, free from conventional fetters. Says Sociologist Marshall Fishwick of the University of Delaware: "The playboy is a cowboy who has just discovered woman...
That hallowed American folk hero, the lean cowboy with six-gun at hip, swinging smoothly into the saddle-somehow he never had to go to school to learn that stuff. Today's cowboy is more likely to shift gears than spur a pony, and the all-round hand who can do something more useful than strum a guitar is getting so scarce that the Federal Government is trying to train up-to-date cowboys in classes...
...septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make real fine cowboys," he said...
Born in Davies County Mo. during Abraham Lincoln's first term. Cauthorne was a school teacher and cowboy in the West. He served as clerk of the Missouri court that acquitted Frank James, brother of Jesse...
...else in the American League, and he stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall-"two inches of which," someone once noted, "is hair." Sam's taste in clothes is provocative. He showed up for work this spring looking like Black Bart-black ranch pants, black coat, black neckerchief, black cowboy boots and black Stetson. As far as Cleveland Manager Birdie Tebbetts is concerned, "McDowell can wear a breechcloth and feathers if he wants"-so long as he mows down American League hitters the way he has ever since the 1966 season started...