Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changing our name, but not our stripes." In one of the drive's most successful commercials, the tiger is summoned back to duty from the "Advertising Hall of Fame" and is given a banzai by such sales stars as Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Borden's Elsie the Cow and Planters' Mr. Peanut...
...author naturally dwells longer on his successes than his missteps, but even the latter provide moments of fine humor. Having refused to accept Herriot's expert diagnosis that his cow had a broken pelvis, one stubborn dalesman proceeded to apply an ancient cure used by his father ("A very clever man with stock was me dad"). The cow turned out to be suffering only from loose pelvic ligaments, which happened to cure themselves almost at the moment the useless home remedy was applied. For years thereafter-which the author would be well advised to cover in a sequel...
...much so that the ethnic overtones in the film are often annoying. That this picture, technically excellent in so many ways, should bump up against thematic cliches which become embarrassments and irritants, is an indication that the arts and entertainment people have milked dry yet another erstwhile sacred cow...
...under these trees he loved, he will now rest," said ex-Governor John Connally. "He first saw light here. He last felt life here. May he now find peace here." Beyond a nearby stone wall, the howitzers of the Texas National Guard fired a 21-gun salute in a cow pasture...
Unlike the previous post-war generations of the 20th century, most of us are ashamed of the war just ended, and of America's role in it. That was not America, we tell ourselves, that carpet-bombed North Vietnam to cow its "enemies" into a settlement; nor was it America that sent B-52s thundering deep into Laos and Cambodia three days after its envoys signed a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. No, this was one man who embodies a perverse diplomacy built up in Washington war-rooms over a decade. Our generation...