Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing," says Robert Helmick, a Des Moines lawyer who is a vice president of the U.S.O.C. Helmick also points out, however, that the Olympic definition of amateurism has been broadened enormously over the past 20 years. Broadened indeed; it is as if the definition of a milk cow had expanded to include gray skin, huge floppy ears and a trunk. Since 1980, subsidies and stipends paid out by the U.S.O.C. have doubled, to an impressive figure of $90 million. But important changes had begun earlier. In 1978, as a result of an International Amateur Athletics Federation ruling, U.S. amateurs were...
Sharon Caughron came in and said, "I'm so sick of cows." She said she had been kicked while milking one and that she had gone and bought a "screw-down kicker." This contraption, when tightened, puts pressure on the cow's flanks, making it impossible for the cow to kick. "So now I screw it down till her eyes pop out, and she don't kick me any more...
Sharon Caughron came back in and said she had a cow die "with the scours...
Perry used the vernacular "bull" to describe a style where one analyzes a problem and thinks constructively about it's purpose even though one is short of facts. Perry called the answers that the "fact knower" writes in his bluebook "cow" answers--lists of appropriate facts which just don't add up. Perry's metaphors of cow and bull may help to characterize approaches you used when writing in bluebooks. The true "a" comes with the integration of cow and bull answers...
...cross-species delivery was the third of its kind. Three years ago at New York City's Bronx Zoo, Flossie, a Holstein dairy cow, gave birth to a gaur (rhymes with tower), a rare type of wild ox that inhabits the forests of South Asia. In 1977 two wild Sardinian sheep were born to a domestic sheep at Utah State University...