Word: cow
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...Ministers may not have the chance to resign. Informed in London of the Cabinet's truckling, a furious Hussein privately spoke of dismissing Talhouni and the Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware...
Return of the WASP. Though no writer has spoken more disparagingly of the small-hearted WASPs of small-town America, Mailer begins to seem almost sympathetic toward them. "They had been a damned minority for too long, a huge indigestible boulder in the voluminous, ruminating government gut of every cow-like Democratic Administration. Perhaps the WASP had to come to power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear...
That was the end of the first Mos cow demonstration by a small organization called War Resisters' International, founded in The Netherlands after World War I and now headquartered in London. W.R.I., which claims branches in 40 nations, supports nonviolence and works closely with the Quakers. A major point in its program is "to seek and maintain contact with war resisters in countries where it is dangerous to oppose government policy...
...butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must buy all the milk a farmer delivers, then pass on the surplus butter to the government stockpile at the minimum price. Such assurances have made the German farmer even more attached to his cow. Fed now with enriched fodder, notably U.S. soybeans, German cows have been producing record quantities of milk in recent years...
Some of the most amusing but also pathetic entries deal with his efforts to be folksy and humbly ingratiating with voters who understood him probably even less than he understood them. He was equally at a loss when dealing with party hacks. "I feel like a cow being led garlanded to the altar," he noted, "and they probably regard me as a very doubtful old horse." He lost the election, of course, and when he returned to London, half-angry and half-shamed, he poured out his feelings in an article in the Spectator that alienated him from the Labor...