Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another idea. With Admiral Boyle's ap proval, wireless summoned full speed out from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters...
...crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks...
...Just as he ambles into a slaughterhouse he is found again by Clint and shipped back to the range. After the rodeo scenes Smoky loses its legitimate interest as an equine biography. Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time in Arizona cow country, posed his mustang hero against a sun-drenched panorama of hills and prairie. Good shot: Smoky causing a stampede when he returns to the herd after hobnobbing with his first skunk...
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...Monmouth, Ill. a cow sat on John P. Collins, smothered him to death...