Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled wanderer's son, is afeared to marry his sweetheart, where people dart out of portable outhouses, or go in for bucolic frisks and nocturnal rituals, or pay such compliments as: "Cow has more but you are nicer...
Through the snowbanked rural reaches of the state, Kennedy and his pretty wife Jackie toiled, shaking hands, gathering dairy farmers together for talks, and making homey jokes, i.e., as the cow said to the farmer, "Thanks for the warm hand on a cold day." The response, on the whole, was fairly predictable: in the "backyard" of Minnesota's Humphrey, Kennedy could do little more than try to get himself known. (Humphrey himself was bedded down with a cold, missed most of his scheduled weekend foray, sent his wife Muriel to stump...
Twenty years ago, handsome Tom Mboya was just another barefoot child in the untamed highlands of East Africa, where his people had only recently discovered the uses of the wheel. He was born to illiterate parents on the dried cow-dung floor of a grass-roofed hut on the sisal (hemp) estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, who, a local yarn has it, won his 34,000 acres of Kenya highlands with a throw of the dice in Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel...
Action. Every Saturday since, she has slogged into villages without schools, called the people together on a cow's horn, exhorted them to help her build a 100-student school so their children will be "good for something." Then, in wide-brimmed white hat and apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then...
Grass Roots Sentiment. In Tampa, Fla., Francisco Alvarez was ordered by a court to get rid of his cow as a public nuisance, even though he produced three character witnesses who offered to testify to the cow's good behavior...