Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing Doodles. Galley lifts weights in his living room to keep in shape, is allowed on the lawn behind his apartment for daily exercise periods. Neighbors have seen several bags of cow manure delivered to fertilize the vegetables Calley grows in his backyard. His evening meal is occasionally prepared by Miss Moore...
...never seen a reason why I shouldn't use it." His grandfather became a Smith, Silverheels noted, when Indian officials advised members of the family to change their names "so that they wouldn't be signing papers 'Bird Sitting on the Grass' or 'Cow Jumping Over the Moon.' Mother preferred Smith, but now she's in her mid-eighties and doesn't care any more...
...nonfarm" suburban areas. Youngsters producing blue ribbon bread and corn still exist, but their numbers are declining. "We used to put more emphasis on the chicken than on the child," says Indiana State Leader Edward L. Frickey. "Now we put the blue ribbon on the kid, not the cow...
...other characters in Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo...
...first hundred pages. Author Knef has a Hitlerian horror story to tell. At 19, politically no more sophisticated than any other shoemaker's daughter, the little cow jumped over the moon for an all-out Nazi film director named Ewald von Demandowsky. When the Russians reached Berlin, Hilde wangled a machine gun and some grenades and followed him to the front disguised as a soldier. Her account of what happened is a phantasmagoric exercise in battle reportage...