Cattle dragged and choked...Knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be restunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process alive. I’ve worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They’re all the same. If people were to see this, they’d probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn’t mean anything.
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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
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At Hayes' General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. T...
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.
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The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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He's just a veteran quarterback that knows this game and makes really quick decisions because he's done it so many times. He's almost machine-like on the field.
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Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.
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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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It's nice to have several veteran receivers that our young guys can gain some key knowledge from as they grow and develop at the position.
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How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
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