Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...
...three years the Administration had juggled the nation's manpower, substituting makeshifts for direct action. Reflecting on the legal machinery available, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes philosophized: "When you can't ride a horse, ride a mule; if you can't ride a mule, ride a cow." But at week's end the Administration sounded like a man who hoped to ride a horse...
Last week the Ammunition Division of Army Ordnance came up with two machines to do the job better. One looks like a milking machine for a 24-teat cow ("mechanical cow"), the other resembles 24 round bayonets slung under a steel bar ("hot bayonets"). Now being standardized at all Army ordnance plants, they are expected to save five million man-hours this year...
...operation, the "cow" cools just the right amount of TNT to just the right temperature, then pours it through nozzles into 24 shells mounted on a carriage. After further cooling, the shells are probed by the steam-heated "bayonets," all the way down to the bottom, where cavities usually form. Then the "cow" fills in the space that remains...
...Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks like the old school is headed for cow-college status...