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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blacksmith's Son. Except for the usual pride in being a Texan, Ben Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Even in Hitler's Germany the infatuation for medals, titles and uniforms never reached the peak it has in the proletariat's promised land. On the kolkhozy (collective farms), a visitor is apt to meet a Znatnaya Doyarka (Distinguished Cow Milking Woman). One of the latest additions to the new Soviet aristocracy is Honorable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, whose picture (see cut) was published in a recent issue of Ogonek (Small Flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Solicitude | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Wise Men . . . were not offended when the king was not born in Jerusalem. They left the Temple and went to the cow stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Join the Wise Men | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Holy Cow!" At week's end new light had been thrown into some murky corners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Rings | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...envelope. Together they went to Levine's mother's house at 260 Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, where Levine had hidden the envelope on top of an unused dumbwaiter shaft. Levine testified that Chambers blew the dust off the envelope, opened it, glanced at the contents and exclaimed: "Holy cow! I didn't think this still existed." Chambers then took the envelope back to his Maryland farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Rings | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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