Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This article states: "Mrs. Riddle provided a blooded herd (one Guernsey cow cost $60,000) for the instruction...
According to my knowledge there is no record of any Guernsey cow having been sold at either public auction or private treaty for any such figure...
Henry Wallace pretended not to hear. He strode into Washington, denounced universal military training,* said that Russian aggression was a myth, and then bustled back to Manhattan. He also found time to order half a ton of cow manure worked into the 5 ft. by 15 ft. plot adjoining his Park Avenue headquarters, in preparation for corn planting...
Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
...Barbara Ann Scott, Calgary, an overgrown (pop. 100,000) cow town at heart, had put on its best pearl-grey Stetson and its best Stampede air. Calgarians cheered her when she skated away with the Canadian Women's Figure Skating Championship, packed her four exhibitions at the Glencoe Skating Club Carnival. They gave her a civic luncheon attended by 400 fans and fitted her out with a complete cowgirl outfit...