Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four Herriot books are bolts cut from the same Scottish tweed, carefully interweaving the local patois (Owt a gurt cow wi' nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers...
...Easy, old girl," says Herriot as he cleans out a cow's afterbirth. He removes the arm-length plastic gloves. "Wonderful things, these. In the old days I was up to my arms in blood and dirt. And no time to write more than a prescription. No antibiotics then, and the farmers very witchcrafty. Full of folk remedies and possessed of hands too big for their animals." He regards his own small fingers. "That's why they came to me: I could operate on a sheep or goat without mangling the poor thing. Then it was large beasts...
...title came from an Anglican hymn: All Creatures Great and Small. The rest is history, geography and mathematics. The book hit bestseller lists before the reviews were in. Herriot went on to prove that despite his obscure locale and inarticulate subjects, the right story teller could make a Yorkshire cow a moveable beast. Today some 2½ million copies of his works are in print, making their author the most unlikely literary superstar since Joy Adamson wrote about a lion who was born free...
Harry Truman buzzed the White House in a DC-4 called the Sacred Cow, which by 1945 had become a symbol of presidential power. Dwight Eisenhower, the only President to hold a pilot's license, moved us into the missile age and got a jet, a Boeing 707. John Kennedy got a newer one ("It's magnificent. I'll take it"), and the tradition of Air Force One was born at the same time Kennedy headed America for the moon...
...beefs are loud as budget cutters attack a "sacred cow...