Word: percheron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human beings. There are mountain demons who suck the life from unwary travelers, demons who cause hailstorms and earthquakes and eclipses. The Tibetan Buddhist contemplates an intricate pantheon, from the five Dhyani-Buddhas, who share the guardianship of the world, to hosts of spirits. Yet, writes Tibetan Scholar Maurice Percheron: "All, from the Dhyani-Buddhas to the vilest ghost, are nothing but the sparklings of a single diamond . . . only Enlightenment allows one to perceive the unity that underlies all this diversity." This is the faith that reigns supreme in Tibet...
...plays Gunsmoke's Marshal Matt Dillon, is probably the biggest thing ever seen in blue jeans. (One director had to stand him in a hole in order to get his head in the picture.) What horse, short of a Percheron, could carry him for more than a couple of miles? But at his best, Actor Arness manages to behave with a sort of unheroic, splatter-dabs-and-huckydummy homeliness that makes the customers imagine themselves in the West as it really was; and the illusion is further fostered by Heroine Amanda Blake as Kitty, who is "obviously not selling...
...mile-and-a-furlong derby with a sprint. His sire, the Irish-bred Sullivan, seldom lasted more than a mile; his dam. Lady N Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky is a horse out of Bunyan by Runyon...
...Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than any other treatment. Today's vets usually have a couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses...
...like to watch Mario Lanza pursue the uneven tenor of his weight. As the man gets fatter, the voice seems to get thinner. This time Tenor Lanza, by dint of strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer. No matter how light the aria, he delivers it-grunting and sweating and rolling his eyes -like a crate of olive...