Word: cow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early in the summer of 1955 the school board in the little (pop. 1,855) cow-and-cotton town of Hoxie, Ark. made a big decision: the community's 25 Negro students were to be integrated with the 1,000 white youngsters in the school system at the start of the next semester. All went well until the White Citizens' Council of Arkansas and White America, Inc. moved into town and with local segregationists began a pressure and terror campaign against parents and school-board members. But the school board held firm; following the procedure laid down...
Udder Trouble. It all began when sandy-haired Adin Hege, 52, a farmer in the Mennonite community at Maugansville, Md. bought a new cow. Adin discovered that the cow had an inflammation of the udder. He stopped payment on his check. Sued for the amount ($347), Adin went to court to explain his case. But Mennonite law forbids the brethren to settle disputes in court. Mennonite Bishop Mose's Horst announced that Adin had been excommunicated...
...From its inception in 1636 to today's announcement, Harvard has been attempting to perfect itself, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in another, sometimes actively, sometimes not. But in the sum total of these movements lies the story of Harvard's growth from a small college in a cow pasture into one of the great universities of the modern world...
...levy "towards a schoale or college." Over a year elapsed before any further steps were taken, but late in 1637 the first Overseers purchased a slip of land from Goodman Peyntree on the southern edge of Cowyard Row. (The present Cambridge Common is all that remains of this great cow pasture.) Around this nucleus the Yard slowly expanded until reaching its present size in the first half of the eighteenth century...
...then, of course, there is the supporting cast: 68,894 people and 7,959 animals-including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue. The film took 34 directors 160 days to make on 112 locations and 140 sets in 13 countries. And the wardrobe department alone spent $410.000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets, while Todd's makeup men claim to have glued 15,612 beards-including a number...