Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny Sunday afternoon. As the four-motored Sacred Cow headed west from Washington's Boiling Field, the coal and railroad strikes, the food crisis, the failure of the Paris conference seemed left behind. Harry Truman was off on a 30-hour weekend in Missouri, his seventh trip away from Washington in 1946, his 16th since taking office...
...easy either for players or listeners. Though they sometimes required large choruses and offstage sound effects, no one but Mahler was ever quite sure what was going on. Mahler offered no-program notes. He once explained a particularly apocalyptic passage to his orchestra: "Here, gentlemen, is where the cow walks across the field...
...demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
Allen ("Buck") La Fever was tired of lifting a cow. On the Borden Company's County Fair program, last Oct. 16, he volunteered to test a legend: he would lift a Jersey calf, Phoebe, once a day, hoping eventually to lift a full-grown cow (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week, after 218 straining days, the pride of Somerville, N.J., failed to umph Phoebe off the ground...
...grabs a cow and paints with the cow...