Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conestoga I was itself an anomaly. Never before had a U.S. corporation built and launched its own rocket into space. "Long live free enterprise!" shouted some of the 300 giddy spectators, dozens of them investors in the project, who gathered on a Matagorda Island cow pasture to cheer the takeoff. "It was just a glorious feeling," said David Hannah Jr., founder and chairman of Space Services Inc. of America (SSI), the two-year-old company that financed (for $2.5 million) and flew the free-enterprise rocket. "We met the objective in picture-book style...
...ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast booth, Phil Rizzuto is exclaiming, "Holy cow!" and "Huckleberry!" It is momentarily lovely...
...many of the bombs failed to detonate, mostly because they ricocheted off mountain rocks. The guerrillas promptly sawed the bombs open, removing the explosives for use as mines. Total casualties after the Soviets dropped 223 bombs on the village of Parandeh: one villager killed, one wounded, and one dead cow...
...courtship is prickly. At Annie's insistence, John must woo Helen for her consent before he can win Annie for his bride. At first, Helen fears that she will be forced to go back to her parents' home in Alabama and vegetate like "a cow." But between John's charms and Annie's assurances, Helen is won over. She gives her blessing and brings down the first-act curtain with the imperious "You must be married in this house...
Ronald Reagan last week called it "a political football" kicked around by "demagoguery" and "falsehoods." To one of the President's advisers it is "the most sacred cow we have around here." Democratic Senator James Sasser of Tennessee believes that "it might well be the dominant issue in this fall's campaigns." Even last week Senate Republicans were pitted against House Republicans, to the glee of their Democratic adversaries, and a meeting of a blue-ribbon presidential commission degenerated into a partisan shouting match...