Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West German Foreign Office, who said that both the SS-20 and the proposed counterforce, NATO's Pershing Us and cruises, are essentially political weapons. Mertes maintained that the Soviet Union would avoid war, especially in Europe, because "the Federal Republic of Germany is a good fat cow; they will not slaughter it. They will draw it very slowly from the Western area to the Eastern area. That means that besides the risk of nuclear war, there is the risk of creeping Soviet influence in the Federal Republic...
...Democrats last held a national convention in San Francisco in 1920, nominating Ohio Governor James Cox; he was trounced by Warren G. Harding. The Republicans had equally bad luck with the choice they made at the Cow Palace in 1964: Barry Goldwater. This time 5,242 delegates and alternates, along with some 20,000 members of the press and campaign staffers, will see if a winner can be picked at the nearly two-year-old Moscone Convention Center. The weeklong party, scheduled to begin July 16, 1984, will cost the city nearly $8 million and will bring in more than...
Rossellini pedals off, for an hour or more, through a dozen or so takes of the cow playlet. As she waits at rest for the camera to roll, her resemblance to her mother, Actress Ingrid Bergman, is powerfully clear: the wide cheekbones, the astonishing directness, the serene impression of physical and moral strength. In motion, as she smiles and gives the flower to the cowherd, she flashes the life and openness that were, she says, the unforgettable traits of her father, Film Director Roberto Rossellini. These characteristics are not physical. It does not seem especially important to catalogue her face...
Michael H. Ferris '83 will deliver the traditionally humorous Ivy Oration at this year's Class Day and promises Stephen J. Keeler '83 who chaired the committee that chose Ferris "he'll leave no sacred cow untouched...
...Chancellor Christopher Fordham to cover the Thanksgiving game from the president's box. In the middle of his account (look up, reader, for a Holstein is about to drop), Windsor wrote: "I was probably the only person at the game that day who had been kissed by a cow. Early that morning I walked to the barn . . . and as I put a bucket of sweet feed over the fence, Chocolate, my big, black and beautiful cow that I used to carry everywhere in my arms, gave me a big lick on the cheek. Jesus don't love souls...