Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslem League's shrewd, elegant President Mohamed AH Jinnah put it coolly: "India has never been a nation. It only looks that way on a map. ... I want to eat the cow the Hindu worships. When the Hindu shakes hands with me, he must go wash his hands. Our religion is not all. Culture, history, customs, all make Moslem India a different nation from Hindu India. The Moslem has nothing in common with the Hindu except his slavery to the British...
When the presidential Sacred Cow took off from Washington National Airport, through cold rain and slush, all commercial airplanes had been grounded for three hours, and would be for ten hours more. The Sacred Cow flew in & out of a pea-soup overcast, ran into violent headwinds and icing. It arrived in Kansas City an hour and 19 minutes overdue. Even the President conceded that, while he had seen rougher trips, he had not seen many...
...spoke Lieut. Colonel Henry T. Myers of the Air Transport Command, pilot of the Sacred Cow and final judge of when she can venture out. Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was "routine," that he was amazed at the adverse comment. But the critics, knowing that some pilots would gladly try flying the Hump in a blizzard just for the hell of it, were not silenced...
Shortly after noon, the Sacred Cow lifted its tail, charged down the slushy runway, and lumbered off into the chill mist that veiled Washington's National Airport. All commercial flights that day had been canceled. Harry Truman, as he climbed aboard, turned to the 18 shivering newsmen and grinned: "I'm sorry to bring you boys out in this bad weather...
Current Event. In Sedalia, Mo., a cow lost interest in her cud: experimentally bit an electric light cord, abruptly lost interest in everything...