Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press denounces writers who picture "angry young men" or a "disappointed generation," it is devoting an ever increasing amount of space to letters, articles and sermons on youth's problems. There has been a startling increase in alcoholism among the young (but a decline in adult drinking); Mos cow has twelve sobering-up tanks where grim pictures of passed-out repeaters are taken and pinned on the bulletin board at their factory or university...
...somewhere in Wales, goes barmy in the back stacks with the first pretty woman (Mai Zetterling) who evinces interest in one of his favorite volumes, Concise History of Codpieces? One moonless night she takes him out for a spin, but just as Dad is about to make out, a cow sticks its head in the car window and says naaaah. She invites him home when her husband is away, but unexpectedly the husband returns-accompanied by several members of the library committee...
Accordingly, what the Moslem peasants want is relatively modest: work instead of unemployment; schools instead of illiteracy; decent homes instead of huts built of cow dung and grass; above all, "an end to the bad old times." And if there is any clear F.L.N. policy for the future, it is in favor of these aims...
Turning up at London's most merciless sacred-cow roast, Queen Elizabeth II chuckled her way through the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe with two other targets: Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Her Majesty's censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script...
...many of the artistic, scientific, and technological fields, Fuller remarked that "science paces technology, technology paces industry, industry paces economics, and economics paces politics. Quite clearly, then, political leaders are at the tall end of affairs. And for man to ask change of political leaders is like asking the cow's tall to redesign the cow...