Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight because of my memories-the laughter and play of my childhood, the ball games I was in, the better ones I watched, my mother telling me why my father and she came to America, my high-school graduation, the first time I saw a cow, the first year we could afford a vacation, the crib at Camp Surprise Lake after the crowded polluted Coney Island waters, hikes in the fall, weenie and marshmallow roasts, the first time I voted, my first date and the slap in the face I got instead of the kiss I attempted, the El going...
...beginning was Jo-Uk, the Great Creator, and he made the Sacred White Cow. Out of the Nile that Cow came up. The White Cow gave birth to a man child whom she called Kola; his grandson was Ukwa. Ukwa took two wives, beautiful holy maidens who rose out of the sacred river. One of Ukwa's sons, Nyakang, a Negro, went south to the swampy country of the Upper Nile; there he founded the Shilluk nation and became its first ret (ruler) and a demigod. That was about four centuries...
Flowers he affectionately calls by their Latin names. He picks bunches of daisies, forget-me-nots, anemones for Lady Anderson's small town house. He takes an enchanted interest in the garden, the one cow, two geese, half-dozen ducks they own. Says Lady Anderson: "He loves that cow...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
...Overcrowding is almost universal. At Craig Colony for epileptics, crowding is so bad that mattresses are spread on the floor of the Day Room at night. "The contrast between these crowded buildings and the cow barn, where the dairy herd of the institution is kept, is marked...