Word: cowed
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...While Hong Kong's government was milking the harbor as a tax cow, it missed what was happening elsewhere in the world. As shipping moved from downtown wharves to purpose-built container ports, old cities discovered that their weedy waterfronts could be reworked into the sort of environments that would attract?and retain?both tourist dollars and the creative minds that give a place fizz. From Boston to Bilbao, from Singapore to Sydney?even, for heaven's sake, in Liverpool, the ultimate rusted-up port?city planners have remade harbors into lively, people-friendly places full of restaurants, design studios...
...listened still on a desert hill At the close of a bitter day, When the orange sun in wispy clouds Was set in a greenish haze? In a cold white world of deepening drifts That cover the land like a pall, Then the plaintive bawl of a hungry cow Is the loneliest sound...
...some Bull Durham tobacco into his rolling paper, Knox pulled tight the yellow drawstrings on the pouch. He moistened the paper, rolled the cigarette, lit it. Then he leaned over the bar and, in a soft voice, recited an old Bruce Kiskaddon verse about the dangers of an enraged cow: "Think a cow boy cain't run? Well you aint seen one sail/ When a cow blows her nose on some waddy's shirt tail...
With branding time near, the tension grows thick. One waddie fires the propane to heat the branding iron, while another scrapes his knife across a whetstone. Three others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...
...never let a cow outfigure him And never missed a loop. He always kept cattle under control Like chickens in a coop. He was never in the right place at the wrong Time or in anybody 's way. For working cattle he just naturally knew When to move and when to stay...