Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gain altitude by rising with one thermal, then diving to another near by. They may be detected by clouds, airborne debris, hawks or odors. "Thermals pick up the odor of the ground where they form," says Lloyd Licher of the Soaring Society of America. "If you smell cow manure or garbage at 10,000 ft., you can assume you're onto something." By using thermals alone, Hans-Werner Grosse, a German, set the world's distance record of 907.7 miles last year, spanning Germany and France...
...naturally enough, a hot dog. Anyone who could do the things in goal that he could and have big cow-brown eyes and long black curly hair at the same time--well, hell, he had a head like the Goodyear Blimp...
...celebrating his 23rd year on TV and with Actress Ann-Margret, 32, enacts his version of the Billie Jean King/Bobby Riggs tennis match. Playing out of a phone booth while talking to his agent, occasionally reading a magazine, looking at her backward through a mirror or milking a cow, "Bobby Higgs" is handily beating an irate "Billie Jean Margret." Until she starts doing bumps and grinds, at which point he strips down to star-spangled shorts and starts a verbal rally. "I've a better forehand, backhand and much prettier legs," Higgs boasts. "Are those your legs?" lobs Billie...
...argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...
Even more disturbing is that some quick-buckers have started on the satire routine. Here's a juicy line from Ludwig von Wolfgang Vulture: "Now one of the flock would dip down in a 61/2-point inverted roll and tear off a chunk of the festering flesh of the decaying cow or sow, the flesh already gone black, squirming with blind maggots." And here's the twist: Ludwig gets hooked on speed reading and expects a Fulbright or Rhodes; instead he gets banished. Or try this for satire: "He knew that perfect speed is never having to say you're slow...