Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...definition of a dedication as "a servile address to a patron," or a pension as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized. Today no one calls a cow pasture a "vaccary," and infants are weaned, not "ablactated...
...Agriculture and Engineering comprise about 25 percent of the undergraduate enrollment, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences about 40 per cent, with the rest divided among Commerce, Fine and Applied Arts, Education, Aviation, Journalism, and Physical Education. Many states (Michigan, for example) have chosen to separate the "cow college" from the "university," and California has gone even further in specializing its various branches. Illinois, however, except for the medical school and a two-year undergraduate division in Chicago, mixes everything happily on the Champaign-Urban campus, a fact which was impressed upon me in my freshman year when...
Picketer and SINA Vice President Bruce Spencer declared that the major immediate problem is "the grave danger of people seeking vicarious thrills by looking at nude animals. Automobile drivers are constantly getting into wrecks because they find themselves diverted by the sight of a naked cow or bull grazing right beside the highway. For just that reason, we have declared the New Jersey Turnpike a moral disaster area. We feel that people should no more take children to a zoo than to a burlesque show." (Last summer President Prout personally supervised the dressing of animals at the San Francisco...
...United States Time Corp. of Middlebury, Conn., proudly boasts that one of its Timex watches recently swallowed by a Texas farmer's cow ran as good as new when the farmer retrieved it. Like the cow, U.S. jewelers know how it feels to swallow Timex. At first they opposed carrying Timex's low-cost, low-profit watches, but Timex is now the nation's fastest-selling timepiece. Since the first Timex was sold twelve years ago, Americans have bought 50 million of them and U.S. Time has become the world's largest watchmaker (1962 sales...
SINA also boasts a marching song, "Wings of Decency," which begins: "High on the wings of SINA/We fight for the future now/Let's clothe every pet and animal/Whether dog, cat, horse. or cow./G. Clifford Prout, our president./ He works for you and me,/So clothe all your pets and join the march/For worldwide decency...