Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paradise," a mile or so outside a tiny California town, its fresh air-pure water isolation breeds a hushed serenity. Six families live in the valley, families who left the cities and towns two or three years ago to build their own homes and grow their own food. The cow there is really named Bessie and she indeed has story-book big brown eyes. Roosters crow at dawn and pigs are even uglier and smellier than the ones you wrinkled your noses at in the children...
...Eastern college. I borrowed her phone--only one family in the valley has one--and called the friend I would rejoin in San Francisco the next afternoon. The two women laughed as I prattled like an excited ten-year-old at summer camp. "Jeremy, guess what? I milked a cow." His reaction, a gentle chuckle, soothed me and my impressions of the last 24 hours tumbled capriciously across the telephone wires. The city sophisticate had discovered life in the country...
...response to your Essay, "Science: No Longer a Sacred Cow" [March 7], I believe that like apples, "the promising fruits of science and technology often come with hidden worms." Do we stop eating apples...
...science really a "pampered sacred cow"? How do you think it feels to work in a country that spends less on its national observatories than it does on jigsaw puzzles...
...Cow Belt is not all of India, of course, and the Congress Party still has a well-financed political machine at its disposal to win friends and influence votes. During the campaign, government workers were granted extra rent and medical allowances, some farm loans were canceled, and a stiff increase in land taxes was halved. The government refused to license private helicopters for political campaigns; meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi's speech-making trips in her air force chopper were permitted "for security reasons...