Word: cud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average length of life of the U.S. people now exceeds 65 years. So declared the ruminant statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. last week after cud-chewing their latest (1944) figures. Corollaries...
Herb's pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
Current Event. In Sedalia, Mo., a cow lost interest in her cud: experimentally bit an electric light cord, abruptly lost interest in everything...
They don't need no band, They keep time by clapping their hand, Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud, When the darkies beat their feet On the Mississippi...
...Army wanted more WAACs (500,000 have been requisitioned) to release more men for combat, Congress was considering bills to make them a part of the regular Army, to allow WAVES to serve abroad. The U.S. was discovering, as England cud long ago, that womanpower is essential to the armed forces in total war. O'Donnell's rumormongering was not calculated to speed that discovery...