Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King ranches and all the King ranchers was winding up the great fall roundup on his many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always...
...Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
...raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern dairy equipped with electric milkers. Miss West has been known to take visitors to the dairy and, in one of those transports common to cattle lovers, throw her arms around a cow's neck and murmur: "You beautiful, beautiful creature...
Placet. Two days later he took off in the President's Sacred Cow. "I'll do my best," he promised Harry Truman...
...Uncle Tigna (superbly acted by Aldo Fabrizi, the priest in Open City) lives. He indulges his nagging wife as if she were a pet horsefly, sneaks supper to the children when they are being punished, stains his legs up to the knee treading his grapes, fusses more than the cow over a new calf...