Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live on a diet of rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes and many other vegetables. They are better developed physically, have more capacity for work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world. Dr. Soper added that "the cow is essentially an unclean animal" and in spite of "all strenuous efforts and precautions, the best milk" is a sort of "bacterial soup...
...works harder than any commercial name band. Its members are up early in the morning for calisthenics and rifle drill. They also have machine-gun practice. From 1 o'clock in the afternoon until dinnertime they rehearse everything from Tchaikovsky to Cow-Cow Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday...
...colicky cow in Ithaca, N.Y., a veterinarian prescribed stiff doses of kerosene. Farmer Royden M. Vose tried to buy four quarts, ran into rationing trouble, finally talked a dealer into letting him supply the coupons later. He sent a letter to the Office of Price Administration office in Syracuse. No answer. Off went another letter. This time back came an OPA questionnaire to be filled...
...greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson attacked Sullens with a cane in a Jackson hotel lobby; both men were...
...brigadier general in the Bomber Command in Washington), most of the original 19th arrived in the Philippines in November 1941, after the longest mass flight (24 Flying Fortresses) in U.S. aviation history. (Such flights are now routine.) It found its base, Clark Field, little more than a cow pasture. When the Japs hit Clark Field Dec. 8 the U.S. Army knew so little about modern warfare that many men sought cover under the wings of the planes on the field. They paid with their lives. Almost half of the 19th's Fortresses were caught on the ground that...