Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest modern army Africa has ever seen was about to show its might against an unfortified cow village, and back in Rome editors plated great victory headlines for their papers and crowds milled through the streets, eager to celebrate. But hours passed, and the news did not come...
Reason for the comparative discomfort of bachelor hall was that the fixtures in the huge, antiquated kitchen in the basement were being removed to make way for modern electric equipment. A second operation even closer to the Roosevelt heart: an ancient "grotto:' used as a cow barn by Andrew Jackson was being freshened up to serve as a storehouse for rare old hams and fine cheeses relished by the Squire of Hyde Park...
...Primitives," says Dr. Lévy-Bruhl, "do not classify the entities in nature as clearly marked out from each other." Hence the "dispositions" of animals, plants and inanimate things are as noteworthy as the attitudes of men. The Bahima of the Nile will not boil milk lest the cow be displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth...
...turbulent, romantic book in which guns roar on almost every page, remorseless pistolmen pink each other with grave aplomb, and hair-trigger gunplay is described in purple passages that smoke and crackle. Although he debunks some Western myths, Author Ripley is more interested in relating good, tall, cow-country tales...
Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...