Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Committee polished off its substantive business in a single session of less than four hours. The committeemen picked Atlantic City as the site for the 1964 presidential convention, set the date for Aug. 24, six weeks after the G.O.P. convention to be held in San Francisco's Cow Palace. One reason for the site choice was that Democrats figure on a rather dull convention in which Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson will be routinely renominated. Atlantic City's besonged Boardwalk might offer bored delegates a chance for cut-rate, nonpolitical amusement...
Since then, Japan's emergent Socialists have introduced a whole new array of techniques, many more or less nonviolent. The most popular is ushi aruki, or cow-walking. Realizing that they cannot block the overwhelming conservative majority, the Socialists do their best to slow business to a standstill. In balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes...
...degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged a passerby. Another ludicrously chopped up a cow, broken loose from a slaughterhouse, with his tommy...
...about. (Margarine makers spend some $22 million a year to convince them subtly that they do, and both sides quote the American Medical Association to make their points.) Every U.S. taxpayer has a stake in the dairy industry's success. Despite a drop in the U.'S. cow population from 20.6 million (1950-59 average) to 17.3 million this year, the industry's growing efficiency has nudged production up 5.8% in ten years to an expected 127 billion Ibs. of dairy products this year. Result: the Federal Government will pay out more than $500 million...
...them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back to the compound she gets winged by a Boxer sniper. The kindly...