Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smashed his chair and table to kindling wood so Kiki could be warm; Soutine slept curled up on the floor while Kiki took his bed. And saturnine Maurice Utrillo, who was once so stirred by her magnificent peasant nudity that he painted a brilliant picture of a huge cow barn...
...Jersey Council of Christian Churches last week asked President Truman to change the name of his private plane. Said the Council: the "Sacred Cow" is "offensive to the Christian conscience of our land . . . has a pagan association which is not healthful to the minds of our young people...
...Sacred Cow: journalists' and politicos' slang for an untouchable subject...
Signs of Urgency. After his Columbus speech, the President boarded his "Sacred Cow" plane for Washington. There the fun abruptly ended; Harry Truman plunged at once into a half week of work...
...which functioned properly. ... She drove, as did all the natives of that country, on the wrong side of the road, very fast and with both hands off the wheel most of the time. During the course of the drive, she missed by a hair two other cars, a cow, a drove of horses, a wagon and a road scraper but not a feint in the blow by blow account of the fight between her liver and her bile. Her liver was so sluggish that it had constantly to be primed in order to make it pump her bile. . . . Just before...