Word: cowed
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...This silly tempest in a teapot arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a Fifth Amendment Communist officer ... It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of certain Army brass." In clear reference to General Zwicker, McCarthy said: "If a stupid, arrogant or witless man in a position of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be exposed...
...settled down on a rundown farm near Brattleboro, and asked himself, since he had growing children, why not buy a cow? Once he had a cow, it seemed a shame to buy hay, so Farmer Serkin raised hay. Then it seemed a pity to stop with one cow. Today the farm is a going concern, with 18 head of Guernseys. It is also a place to rest between trips and concerts: 26 U.S. performances this year, 50-odd abroad...
Wood once remarked that "all the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow," yet his best idea occured on a trip to Europe in 1928. It was simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
...conclude an executive agreement which will make it unlawful for me to kill a cat in the back alley of my lot at night, and I do not want the President of the U.S. to make a treaty with India which would preclude me from butchering a cow in my own pasture...
...What Ah seen was this whole raft o' people a-settin' on these two banks and a-lookin' at one another across this pretty little green cow pasture. Well, they was. And somebody had tuk and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it and Ah don't know what-all, and Ah looked down thar and Ah seen five or six convicts a-runnin' up & down and a-blowin' whistles. They was . . . And friends, Ah seen that evenin' the awfullest fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life...