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Word: cower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof, she offers the story of Meyer Benjamin Meyer and his only crony, Mendel Berg. Middle-aged and resolutely unglamorous, they cower behind their jobs as history professors, publishing judgments on the past, but utterly unable to embrace the present. They wander aimlessly through the narrow corridors of New York universities and the narrow-minded cocktail parties of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Grace from God | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Hunt's opening dream sequences, three naked young blades cower in the deep grass while a pack of chic horsewomen come galloping through the glen. Director Edouard Molinaro thus establishes a theme to justify his title. Then, with stylish clowning, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy take out after a galaxy of predatory French dolls in wild, whimsical, aimless and occasionally rather funny fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three to Go | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...last-resort argument, that all illiterates are incapable of reasoning, would be self-defeating even if it were accurate. If the advocates of literacy tests argue that reasoning cower should be the basis of the right to vote, they must explain why a less haphazard system--I.Q. tests, say--should not supersede their simple tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond the Voting Bill | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

CRIMSON editorial writers now, as then, worship no idols, cower before no cows. Is there a need for a scathing attack on compulsory sophomore tutorial for credit in the geography department? The CRIMSON will write...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Crimson Starts 273rd Competition; Mobs Swamp Oldest College's Daily | 12/9/1964 | See Source »

CRIMSON editorial writers now, as then, worship no idols, cower before no cows. Is there a need for a scathing attack on compulsory sophomore tutorial for credit in the geography department? The CRIMSON will write...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Crimson Kicks Off Yet Another Comp | 3/2/1964 | See Source »

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