Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold for export, and Keralans use the money to buy extra rice at exorbitant black-market prices. They also largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India's people are vegetarians, a fact that creates an especially heavy dependence on grain...
...news conference in Mos cow, top Soviet scientists disclosed that Luna 9's instrumented, picture-taking payload stood only 2 ft. high and weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...
...during his lifetime, and it did not get its more familiar name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge...
...asked, 'Do you mind sleeping in Joe Alsop's sheets?' " But among all the diverse types who trooped to the Schlesinger house, Novelist McCarthy cannot recall ever having met a Republican. "Arthur just doesn't like Republicans," she ventures. "There is a certain amount of cow-boys-and-Indians about it." Summers, the Schlesingers shifted their headquarters to a weathered frame house on Cape Cod, in the section of Wellfleet known as "the woods," originally designed as a bird sanctuary and now a kind of enclave of intellectuals...
Nevertheless, in a chilling study of Southern "law enforcement" that was issued last week, the congressionally created U.S. Civil Rights Commission appointed by the President recounted case after case of excessive bail, deliberate court delays, harsh sentences and cruel jail conditions-all tactics that were used to cow Negroes long before the civil rights movement got started. Calling for federal action, the commission urged on-the-spot FBI arrests and injunctive relief against state prosecutions of citizens trying to exercise First Amendment rights, such as peaceful assembly...