Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know who designed my modern china (Cavitt-Shaw, circa 1940), but at the home ranch and cow-camp, we like these cups. They keep coffee hot, and the handles let men, as well as women, who know better but like to do it, "hook" their cups. The ample wife of one rancher has trouble with the dribble. I thought it due to ill-fitting dentures, but noticed last dehorning that she laps her lip far down the side, as a child does...
...Kansas' professional Republicans, the dry law is a sacred cow. For 66 years-long before national prohibition came & went-they have tended it lovingly, warded off all abuse and slander. They simply looked the other way while millions of quarts of bootleg stuff poured across the border from Missouri and Colorado...
...wacky world of the comic strips, Crockett Johnson found, all things are possible but one. A man may jump out of his shoes, a cow-or a rocket-may jump over the moon, but an artist has a hard time jumping the reservation. Chained in daily and Sunday captivity by his brain children, he can escape them only by dying or (worse than death) by flopping...
...million Illinoisans who went to their 90th State Fair in Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
Under the President's steady assault the mountain of unfinished business melted to a molehill. At week's end he drew a deep breath, climbed aboard the Sacred Cow, just back from Paris, and headed west to cast his vote as Citizen Harry Truman...