Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grade-A vegetables to the local market, regrets that Marianna, like many farms run by hired help, costs more than it brings in. And there are other problems in the agrarian life. This year, Miss Anderson was much puzzled when the big (but unbred) daughter of her registered Guernsey cow did not give milk. "Heifers have to be freshened before you can milk them," she explains with some astonishment. "Did you know that...
...midst of the stormy sessions of Congress on price control a few months ago even the anti OPA forces, except for a few irreconcilable, rallied to the defense of the sacred cow of the American public: rent-control. But today, with the political picture of the House and Senate changed, more and more unofficial Washington reports making their insidious way into newspaper columns tell the story of coming action by Congress which will wreek or completely abolish this system. Whether it be the never-say-die lobbying of the real estate interests or the fact that the Republicans...
This week, leaving cold weather and warm controversy behind, the President flew to Key West in the Sacred Cow. There he planned a lazy seven-day vacation in the commandant's quarters of the Key West Naval Base. Sun and rest would prepare the President for the stormy winter ahead...
...Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling" (smoking marijuana) and writing such deathless lines as: "One by one a cow goes by." Their byword: "There are other things in the world besides hot music. I forget what they are, at the moment, but they are around...
...more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible to get a "free" tone without strain ("You can't go through a closed door"). Once Madame Karst shouted, "My God, you big cow, how can you do that? Don't cocky-doodle...