Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
...possess the U.S. in the summertime. From coast to coast, Americans brave torrential downpours, smoggy traffic jams, cement seats, grass stains and mosquitoes to get within the sound of music. They seek it out in bosky glens and canopied pavilions, up on mountaintops and down in gulches, in abandoned cow pastures and deserted mining towns, on a riverbank beside a barge and in the middle of a city...
...housewife is squeamish about strangulation, there is a handful of books and writers that provide an adequately mixed bag of recipes for those of more modest ambitions. James Beard, author of everything from a basic cookbook to Cook It Outdoors, is a gifted milker of the cooking-boom cow...
...Enough Bodies. This year, with a backlog of 66 bills still stalled in committee, Premier Ikeda ordered his men to push them through before the Diet session closes July 6. When the government party recently used its majority to force a vote on a controversial relief-law revision, cow-walking was no longer enough. Fists and ashtrays started to fly. Battling lawmakers shouted: "Respect parliamentary procedures!" The brawling later spread to the cabinet committee, where five bills were stalled. Socialists massed around the committee-room door to prevent Chairman Tadanori Nagayama from entering...