Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were still grave dangers ahead for the fledgling nation. Moise Tshombe, premier of rich Katanga province, whose mines provide 60% of the Congo's income, still threatened to secede rather than hand the province's revenues over to a powerful central government. "The Katanga cow will not be milked by Lumumba's serpents!" cried the secessionists, and reportedly they had the encouragement of some white businessmen. In reply, Leopoldville officials sent jets roaring low over the region in an obvious show of force...
Alvin Rodecker, musing over the luncheon at Le Pavilion, turned cheerfully to his wife. "Holy cow!" he said. "That was expensive. But it was worth it. We're really celebrating." At that instant the plummeting dumbbell cracked his skull. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but Rodecker never regained consciousness, and 24 hours later he was dead...
...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...parking lot (50?), expects 85,000 visitors on good days, an average of 37,000 (v. 60,000 tops at Disneyland). Many of the park's features are undisguised advertisements : ye olde brewery is built and operated by Schaefer beer; Elsie the Borden cow is the most conspicuous resident of a Midwestern farm; the Bank of New York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest is modern); the clocks in the Chicago and San Francisco railway stations bear the monogram of the Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were...
...target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at the Benning show, and three times it scored a direct hit on a tank more than a mile away. At the third hit, Ike pushed his hat back, grinned and exclaimed: "Holy cow...