Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arizona, where he had spent his youth. When he discovered that he didn't have to stay in Cleveland to do his cartooning he sold a Cleveland home that had cost him $65,000, shopped around for a likely ranch, and finally settled down in the lonely, Southwestern cow country where he lives today. One reason he bought his ranch: four men had been killed on it, one is buried under the basement of his kitchen...
Copey's eyes shone with a youthful gleam yesterday as he revealed a plan which he has had in mind for years. He is determined, he announced, to buy a cow this spring and to test his right to graze her in the Yard...
...route of the trip is as follows: from Cambridge to the Watertown dam, thence to Waltham, Auburndale, and the Newtons; thence to Newton Upper Falls to a point between Cow Island and Dedham Island where a short portage may be made; thence between Needham and Dedham northwest to Wellesley. It has not yet been discovered whether the waterway from Lake Waban to the river is large enough to permit navigation, but an investigation is under way to clear up this matter...
...years ago, a four-minute mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than...
Thomas Edmund Dewey was too young, said the experts: a not-so-nice kid too big for his breeches; cocky, inexperienced both in politics and statesmanship -a ball of fire in New York, maybe, but just a city dude out where men are men and a cow is a cow...