Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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most feted cow, a reception and milk...
What the N.C.W.C.'s Social Action Department does in the cities, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference does for country Catholics. "The cure for Communism is to give a man a cow," says its executive secretary, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti. He told the Kansas City conferees about his group's efforts to increase people's ownership of productive property through homestead projects, farmers' cooperatives and small, decentralized industries...
Anyone who lives in the country and drinks unpasteurized milk from an infected cow, or pours a spot of tainted cream in his coffee, is liable to come down with a low fever and vague pains. He may feel fine every morning, but in the afternoon his temperature soars, and he gradually loses strength. This may keep up for years. Symptoms range all the way from mild backaches to bone and nerve infections, heart disease, insanity. Hardly an organ in the body is safe from invasion. Victims of brucellosis may be suspected of having tuberculosis, meningitis, arthritis, influenza, glandular disorders...
...twelve, Stamm (which is German for "sprout") was working his way through grammar school as a long-distance cattlewalker, receiving a small compensation for driving Old Lady Sachs' cow to and from school and leaving it in a neighboring pasture. It was during this period that he met Rosie. Even today Stamm thinks occasionally of those school days. "Everybody give a deep sight for Rosie," he says, and led by Teacher, the class heaves in wistful unison. On the way home from school he would slow his steps that Rosie might overtake him; and when she did, he would feign...
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio paid $38,963 damages last year for livestock hit by its trains. Last week its officers blinked at an unprecedented letter. Wrote honest W. D. Myers of Deemer, Miss.: "It was my cow that got out of place and there will be no claim filed...