Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely child. Once a tornado whirled her from her parents' porch in Friend, Neb. to a nearby cow pasture. "I was somewhat worried by the cows," she recalls. "I found the storms of nature friendlier than the whims of living creatures." Her teacher noted that "she always expects people to like her." Anna Louise Strong soon discovered that a lot of people did not like her. Says she: "I became very friendly with...
Corporal Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when...
...supposed to be pagan rituals, several hooded cloak and dagger men, and Maria Montez. Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle of the accents, and all Maria has left are a few sexy poses...
...fertilize the fields. Said Mao in a lecture to Communist writers: "Once I felt that only the intellectuals were clean, and that workers, soldiers and peasants were dirty . . . [Now I feel that] although the hands of workers and peasants may be black with dirt and their feet smeared with cow dung, they are still cleaner than the bourgeois and petty bourgeois...
Rabbit & Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human...