Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of the problem, the Second was finally stopped by the enemy. Then the Fourth's test began. Its commander, Brigadier General Fred Clute Wallace, was told to move up, relieve the Second. Hitch was that the country roads were little better than cow paths, that the Second would clutter them aplenty moving to the rear. There were to be no traffic jams for airplanes to bomb...
When the altimeter said 1,500 feet, Jumper Starnes cracked his first chute, passed out for a few seconds as it slowed him down, fast. When he came to, he cracked the second. He landed in a cow pasture south of Chicago. Said he: "I'm certain that the jump is the longest delayed fall ever made in the U.S. and perhaps in the world." No man from Mars gave...
...enjoys calling the U.S. Minister (Meredith Nicholson, aged 74) "Boy." Once the Minister's wife complained that there was no good milk in Managua, the capital. Next morning she found a cow on her doorstep - a gift from the President...
...schoolhouse by pitching in a grenade. Later he penetrated German lines, killed a mortar crew of four, continued stalking snipers who harassed the British withdrawal until he had 130 in the bag. Sergeant Hulme said last week he got his stalking experience on his farm, tracking a cow that would not turn up at milking time...
Russia had been a good friend to China in the past few years; Russian arms had helped to keep China fighting. Chinese realized last week that their own security depended on the resistance of Russian soldiers on the bloodstained field of Mos cow as well as in the windswept valley of Siberia's Amur River. If Germany "and Japan won, between them they might force any peace they wished on China...