Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India's problems did not withdraw, though, and Indira has plenty of them. The country faces an acute food short age that has reduced millions of people to near-starvation level. Hindu holy men are agitating for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter. Indian crowds continue to show a growing propensity toward violence and mayhem. The country's economy is stagnant under layers of bureaucratic government control. Be sides all that, Indira will be confronted with an unaccustomed problem: owing to her party's poor performance at the polls, she must not only face a powerful opposition...
...first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors and workers to cow Prince Lvov into resigning...
...many voters smoothed the way last week as the southern regions of the Sudan went to the polls. Arbitrarily assigned symbols to represent their candidacies because of the south's almost universal illiteracy, candidates beamed if they had drawn such favorable ones as an elephant or a cow, moaned if they had been assigned a picture of a bottle, which could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those...
...sole official language of India. In Punjab, the fall in Congress stock was largely due to squabbles attending the partition of the state of Punjab into Punjab and Hariana. In Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, the Jan Sangh certainly gathered a large number of votes through its agitation against cow slaughter...
...years, Miller's tales have a certain unity, concerned as they are with that incessant search for identity common to so many American writers. The title story is a discursive account of a momentous day in the life of a precocious five-year-old. The Misfits is the cow-country ballad about obsessed horse hunters that later became a celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play, A View from the Bridge. It describes the life...