Word: livestock
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...were told to wait patiently for the State Department to return their calls. Some sat seething by their telephones for as long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
...year's end, to recommend the return of wolves, but political maneuvering has blocked the drafting of the necessary environmental-impact statement. The major national environmental groups support wolf reintroduction, and one, the Defenders of Wildlife, is raising $100,000 to reimburse stockmen in the northern Rockies for livestock the wolves might kill. Last month Defenders agreed to pay $1,700 to cattlemen for kills by a wolf pack that had migrated from Canada into Montana...
Society did not, however, randomly selectpeople to target as witches; most of the accusedshared several distinguishing characteristics.Most of the accused confessed to being witches,"...or, ...at any rate, pretended to [have]extraordinary powers..."1, used to scare theirenemies and harm livestock. This characteristic isquestionable in that many of the witches whoconfessed did so under torturous conditions. Inthe late 1500's and early 1600's in Europe, theaccused were tried, tortured until they confessedand immediately put to death for practicing blackmagic.2 In Salem, the accused were not tortured;thus initial and convincing confessions ofactually practicing witchcraft were rare...
...collective farm, which lies just 100 miles from the Rumanian border, as if it were his own 2,000-acre spread in Ohio. He walks the fields, checking the condition of the crops, and drops by smelly cow barns and even smellier pig farms to dispense tips about raising livestock. In the evening Ralph gives lectures and shows American agricultural films. Christine, 54, a petite ex-schoolteacher, likes to engage the farmers and their families in conversation...
Roughly 90% of this book is about being busy: growing the grain, raising livestock, negotiating with banks, handling paperwork and fixing the combine. When he gets down to nuts and bolts, Rhodes is the Tom Clancy of farm machinery...