Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cow and I (Cyclope; Zenith International) gives French Comedian Fernandel a three-quarter-ton co-star who can mug as well as he can, and certain questions at once arise. Will Fernandel let himself be cowed? Does the beautiful Marguerite make people eyes at him? The answer...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...hard-core Sohyo unionists and Zengakuren students turned out. One crowd of 27,000 swarmed into Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo to shout "Down with the Ikeda government!" Then the chanting demonstrators shuffled off toward the Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic was blocked for five hours. A column of screaming Zengakuren students stoned police guards lined up at the Diet, injuring scores. In Kyoto and Osaka, other student demonstrators staged week-long battles with the police...
...American to whom a wake is about as dated as a brogue. And so he tries to capture not only the wakes but the tangy, smoky drift of Irish talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every historical event can be reduced to some Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the fanciful delight in "Characters"-little Philsy Kerrigan, who once saved up a trunkful of doughnuts; Danny McGhee, who always slept in a maple tree; the midget policeman who caught the dwarf bandit...
...otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones in the barn when an opponent rolled over a lantern...