Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers to sell their herds for export or slaughter and get out of the business. The USDA incentive: up to $22.50 in lieu of each 100 lbs. of milk that the farmer normally would have produced over one year. But to participate in the program, dairymen must brand every cow with a 3-in. X on the right jaw. Reason: without such markings, cows that were supposedly slaughtered or exported could be surreptitiously sold to other U.S. farmers ; and keep on producing milk for the American market. The USDA has received about 40,000 applications for the program, which could...
...overthrew the 16-year regime of President Gaafar Nimeiri in a bloodless coup last year, Lieut. General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister who spearheaded the rebellion, moved into the colonial-style Presidential Palace on the banks of the Blue Nile in Khartoum. Grateful citizens slaughtered a cow in a traditional housewarming gesture to welcome the new leader, but Suwar al Dahab told them his stay would be short. Within a year, he promised, he would hold free elections and turn power over to a civilian government. Last week, Suwar al Dahab showed that he meant to keep...
...ladies of his court. He is moved. 'Ah! it was a fine empire. I had 83 million human beings under my government -- more than half the population of Europe.' To hide his emotion, the Emperor sings . . . January 27. We read Paradise Lost. The Emperor wants to buy a cow, but where shall we keep it?" The imperial party acquires a cow, but someone turns it loose. "February 4. The Emperor is in a very bad humor, and full of the cow incident. At dinner, the Emperor asks (his coachman) Archambault, 'Did you let the cow get away...
...never seen a a cow," said the California native. "I had never even been on a farm...I grew up very middle class and surfed a lot, so it was very different and enjoyable...
Time was when it was difficult not to mention the Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund and federal organized-crime investigations in the same breath. In one case after another, the feds found, the fund served as a cash cow for the Mafia, especially by investing in Mob-controlled Nevada casinos whose profits could easily be skimmed. By 1976 Central States, the largest multiemployer pension fund in the U.S., had nearly $250 million tied up in Nevada gambling operations...