Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisements held news, too. Autumn was the time for auctions. The Pulaski County (Indiana) Democrat heralded John Manning's public sales, three miles west of Medaryville. Manning offered two horses (smooth mouth), a white-face cow (6 years old, bred in August), 25 head of hogs, assorted farm implements, an iron butchering kettle and two electric fence chargers. The Palace Theater's advertisement in the Hills (Minn.) Crescent ballyhooed a new picture-Johnny Mack Brown (half forgotten by city audiences) in a Western titled Ghost Guns...
...Cow Over the Moon. That cotton broke the day after President Truman pulled the plug on controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was purely coincidental. But it was not so with other commodities. Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July...
Kansas' Sacred Cow...
...trader arrived in the U.S. with a string of 24 mounts. He expected them to go like hotcakes, at $3,000 to $5,000 apiece, as they did before the war. By last week, he had not sold one. U.S. poloists had learned to appreciate the home-grown Texas cow-pony, which can run like the wind for 100 yards, stop on a dime and take a lot of punishment...
After a pampered passage from India, four "Red Sindhi" cattle-two bulls, two cows-chewed their cuds last week in a New Jersey cow barn. They were the first Indian cattle to enter the U.S. since 1924. When sufficiently rested from a plane-ship-plane journey, they would start a major breeding project: begetting cows to bulge with milk on the humid, hot Gulf Coast...