Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prosecutor Vakhlin, according to the same source, stole a collective cow from the Red Partisan Collective Farm. He had it processed into bologna, and invited the members of his committee to eat it with him. In due time, the committee decided that the time had come for the prosecutor himself to be prosecuted. Charge: he had not only stolen the cow, but pocketed the proceeds...
Cried Vakhlin: If the cow was collective, so is the guilt. "Did you eat the cow? Yes. So all must answer...
Despite this irrefutable logic, said the Soviet press, Comrade Vakhlin was expelled from the party and fired from his job. Later, for unstated reasons, he was reinstated in the party and is now trying to practice law. But, runs the coy official moral, "the cow won't be reincarnated and the bologna has been eaten." Minimum meaning: Siberia is vast, and there is always room there for another Russian...
From the moment, the Sacred Cow landed on Kansas City's Fairfax Airport, the atmosphere had been warm with easy-going friendliness. Nothing tickled the President more than the greeting of one overalled crony: "You look fine. You're just the old farmer boy like you always...
...that evening, as the Sacred Cow bounced through dirty weather over West Virginia to a landing at the National Airport, the President braced himself for a sterner audience: the G.O.P.-controlled Soth Congress...