Word: cowed
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...cow barn in Buenos Aires' Rural Association fairground last week flocked the elite of Argentina: society women in Paris gowns, high-booted cattle ranchers, pin-striped nouveaux riches. On a raised runway in the middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When...
...University of Oklahoma Press, which is dedicated to documentary studies of the horse and cow and the culture of the men who rode the one or punched the other from Abilene to the Embarcadero, has now done its share to restore the picture of William F. Cody. Even the reader who knows one thing less about the horse than the sad English lady, who knew only two,* will concede that Author Don Russell, an encyclopedist by profession, has contrived a creditable and perhaps definitive biography from a mass of flapdoodle and dime-novel apocrypha. The fact that the prose...
...little piece I wrote 1000 years ago," he read and recited a series which culminated with Accidentally on Purpose. "Whose purpose was it, his, or hers, or its? I'll leave it to the scientific wits." A departure from the theme to Frost's famous rendition of the Cow That Jumped Over the Moon provided a light note...
...What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied up to attract the beast of prey" or Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" who would be "sponged and purged and blasted from the surface of the earth...
...fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable experience, and seem to suffer no aftermath...