Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROUNDERS. Two experienced cow-hams, Fonda père (Henry) and Glenn Ford, deftly spoof the leathery heroic roles they used to play for real...
...room country schools in Texas, and his mother, who was the granddaughter of a Baylor University president, had taught classes in "expression" in Fredericksburg, Texas, and later in her home. In 1912, when Lyndon was four, she taught him to read simple primers ("I see the cow") in their Texas hill-country home. Then she sent him trudging a mile down a ranch road, lunch pail in hand, to Kate Deadrich's one-room tin-covered Junction school, where rules were waived to let him enter first grade short of his fifth birthday. Mrs. Johnson...
...offer a slight correction to your admirable account of my affair with that cow (in the CRIMSON of Saturday, May 1). The consolatory verses that you quoted were of course only a remodeling of the well-known lines from Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubalyat of Omar Khayam...
...words "and thou" I substituted "a cow," for "singing" the word "grazing" and for "wilderness" the words "Harvard Yard." My substitutions left the number of syllables and accents in these lines unchanged. This is about all that can be said for my pleasantry, but this much at least was true. Your version of my third line, however, runs "Ah, would that Harvard Yard were paradise now," and this not only adds two words and an extra metrical foot to the line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald’s rather...
...trial, Mihajlov proved a difficult man to cow. Appearing in a courtroom whose only ornament was a large portrait of Tito, he pleaded not guilty before a three-judge tribunal. He even scored a pre-trial victory when the Croatian Supreme Court sustained his petition to have one of the judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...