Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric bulbs, seven new electric cables, and a public-address system and installed them on the lawn in front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
...does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...
...Anderson, who was virtually unknown outside her native state, was billed as a Minnesota farm wife, and photographed beside a rural telephone in kitchen apron and pulled-back hair. The moral was plain: any woman who could milk a cow could make her mark in Democratic politics. But the build-up did not quite fit the facts...
...spring of 1912, Monsieur Eduard Thibandeau, the esteemed mayor of Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, decided to take a walk into the bush from his country villa at Lac des lies. In the course of his visitation to this uninhabited ares, he came upon a very young and altogether wretched cow moose upon whom he took immediate pity. He swept the gawky calf into his arms and carried it back to his house. After a brief meditation, he decided that the animal should be removed to his stable in Shawinigan Falls and trained to peform some useful duty...
...transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred Cow...