Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Memphis car salesman, a Ghanaian supreme court justice, a Japanese cartoonist-all are Kenya-bound for next week's opening of a potentially explosive international religious meeting. At Nairobi's* capacious Kenyatta Conference Centre, a band beating gazelle-hide drums and blowing on cow horns will greet 747 voting delegates and 1,600 observers and staff. And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement...
...controversial. Barber was embroiled earlier this year in what he calls a witch hunt, when the Cambridge Convention voted to un-endorse him after he came out against strict rent controls. Barber has stuck by his guns and asked that the rent control issue be less of a sacred cow, because he claims rent laws discourage landlords from maintaining property, contributing to the decline of Cambridge housing...
...jobs in the city, 456,000 have been lost. In part, this reflects a national trend of manufacturers escaping the high-cost, crime-ridden inner cities. Even so, New York has done next to nothing to stem the exodus. Says Savas: "City officials look upon business as a convenient cow to be milked." Until recently, the city offered few of the tax breaks or sundry inducements that other places use to attract and keep industry. "New York City has had a totally planless economic development," says Herbert Bienstock, a U.S. Labor Department employment expert...
...tradition and was moved by memories of his fight against Imperial Japan. The foreign left seemed a vast, threatening monolith. Given this new climate of fear, the attack on the Foreign Service men seemed to many repugnant in practice but justified in intent. Senator McCarthy seized the moment to cow the federal employees who might have aided the accused. As E.J. Kahn puts it in The China Hands, his sensitive, knowing account of their ordeal, "Few had ever been so mightily damned by nasty people and so meagerly defended by nice ones." Nasty or nice, honest men could disagree about...
...before him dressed in a clown suit and whispered his name like a beckoning ghost. All in the Family's Rob Reiner remembers going for a drive with his boyhood pal and getting lost. Brooks went into a field and asked directions back to Los Angeles from a cow. "It ought to know," Brooks reasoned. "It lives around here...