Word: cowed
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...required. Although major fields do not exist as such, eight of the remaining nine "electives" must be taken within one's chosen field of expertise. Physical soldiering is confined to summer months--training camp before yearling (sophomore) year, field training in places like Alaska or Panama before becoming a cow (junior)--but a hefty portion of the curriculum is devoted to technical training. The honor code scandal of three years ago was sparked by a take-home exam in "juice" (electrical engineering), a course many cadets disliked. In the halls of the classroom buildings, next to signs outlining...
...often gathered at the spring to trade gossip, but when really important issues came up, they were likely to gravitate toward the Common, described by one historian as the "forum of the embryo city." Set aside in 1630, the Common was supposed to be a pasture. The northwest corner--Cow Common--retained its original purpose, but the rest of the land soon found other uses. The militia, for example, held training exercises on the patch, with attendance mandatory for all able-bodied men unitl 1686. And, in the English fashion, elections were held in the open on the Common...
...cadets are so high for this game, It's unbelievable," Cow (the army term for junior) Brad Lewallen said yesterday, and the mood around this tranquil and beautiful campus bears him out. One company (dorm unit) has planned a "Joe Preppie" night for the evening meal, where the cadets will dress "as preppily as possible" in mock-deference to the visiting Crimson, according to yearling (sophomore) Michelle Matthews. Matthews may have an edge; her brother, Mark, is a Harvard sophomore...
...cells to chemicals. Often such experiments will produce unwelcome changes-say, mutations in bacteria or bladder cancer in rats (as was the case with the animals fed huge amounts of saccharin). But what causes problems in one species may not be dangerous to another. In Michigan, researchers found that cows that licked barn wood treated with the preservative pentachlorophenol were starving to death. It turned out, explains Jerry Hook of Michigan State University's new Center for Environmental Toxicology, that "this substance is toxic to the bacteria in the cow rumen." Such toxicity did not show up in tests...
...whispering forest, and their carefully timed reactions provide some of the show's funniest moments: dozing off during the recitation of tiresome love poetry, moaning and panting as the handsome Orlando passes among them, leaning over as if to puke during an especially noxious dance number from the cow-girl Audrey. They are funny in themselves, and funny for their ludicrously literal representation of pastoral convention...