Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bars [consolation prize] to that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took the audience's heart and a pocketful of silver dollars...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, one of England's most English beauties, onetime actress (in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle), now wife of the British Ambassador to Algiers, found North African markets poor, promptly borrowed a cow and set it to graze on the grounds of the British Embassy, also populated by two partridges, a gazelle. Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, England-she milked the cow...
...slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
...Cowed. Somewhere in Normandy, U.S. Army Paratrooper Herbert Sather floated down to earth safe & sound, was shortly evacuated to England with injuries suffered in a foxhole when a cow fell...
...field George stopped sweeping up the hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...