Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shavli (Sialiai): shau'ley Kaunas: cow'nahs...
...submarine was a Nazi U-boat with the word Lorricke or Lorickke and a picture of a "laughing cow" painted on her conning tower...
...waiting to see whether Britain could hold Suez before making a deal with Hitler in the Middle East, but it was disquieting news for the Democratic World that the British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Stafford Cripps, had information of such importance for his Government that he flew from Mos cow to Stockholm to deliver it in a neutral capital...
Here, as in Greece, but worse than in Greece, the factor of defeat was the Luftwaffe. All day long dive-bombers and strafers kept the British immobilized under cover. Anything which moved-man, woman, child, tank, gun, sheep, cow-was strafed until it stopped moving. The only time the British could attack was by night, and even then the Luftwaffe dropped flares and death. "I was in Greece," said one dust-caked, ragged soldier, "but what their aircraft did to us there was absolutely nothing compared to the concentrated attack by hundreds of planes at once which was made...
...Matthiessen's toughest assignment "because of his inveterate habit of stating things in opposites." He all but worshiped Plato's ability to reconcile fact and abstraction, spent his life in a ceaseless effort to do likewise. That effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge...