Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share of the land, thus assuring the eventual breakdown of the huge estancias...
...party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...southern Mozambique, into which Portugal hopes to lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique's white population against the day when the "freedom fighters" decide to move...
...this is so, it is unfortunate that the arrogant, pushy, rude, and generally obnoxious minority of the Senator's following made its presence felt. From the booing and harassing of Rockefeller to battles with sergeants at arms, most of the convention personnel found the Goldwaterites at the Cow Palace to be generally intolerable...
...different labels, flavored with everything from cognac (Dr Pepper's Pommac) to coconut milk (Yoo-Hoo's Milkette). Schweppes' Bitter Lemon now accounts for a third of Schweppes' sales in the U.S., though it has only been on the market one year. Even Elsie the Cow is out to milk the market. Borden has just put on the shelves its first soft drink-a milk-laced beverage called Moola-Koola. One reason the soft-drink people are convinced that their boom can only grow is that the biggest group of soft-drinkers are on the verge...