Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little piece I wrote 1000 years ago," he read and recited a series which culminated with Accidentally on Purpose. "Whose purpose was it, his, or hers, or its? I'll leave it to the scientific wits." A departure from the theme to Frost's famous rendition of the Cow That Jumped Over the Moon provided a light note...
...What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied up to attract the beast of prey" or Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" who would be "sponged and purged and blasted from the surface of the earth...
...fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable experience, and seem to suffer no aftermath...
...resent your reference to the University of California campus at Davis as a "cow college." You have to have all your marbles to be an Aggie...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...