Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon sun in a grey sky found Lieut. Howard M. McCoy piloting an observation plane with 211 Ib. of mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...
...last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...
...have been composed of many discordant elements. Socialists, Communists, Royalists, and hoodlums, plus a great many citizens out for a lark, rioting without any specific end in view. so far the police have kept the crowd under control--but only with machine guns. If all this is necessary to cow a leaderless mob, what will happen when the rioters are directed by capable leaders who know what they want? If, then, in the next few days the revolt is given some directive force, France will he faced with an organized revolution...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...
...that Russian audiences enjoy most in Fear occurs in the second scene of the third act, when Borodin, addressing an audience in a public hall, eloquently summarizes the results of his researches in the emotion which gives the play its name. Says he: "The dairymaid fears confiscation of her cow; the peasant, forcible collectivization; the Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented intelligentsia to deny their mother...