Word: haymows
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...never forget that night. The three of us were together, as we had been for years through games of tag on the playground, truth-or-dare in the haymow, junior high sleepovers, and high school dances. But tonight we were children no longer—we were young adults, sitting together quietly on the night one of us lost her father...
Brittney L. Moraski ’09 lives in Mower and knows what a haymow...
...young Eisenhowers were discharged to tumble in the cavernous hayloft out back, above Uncle Abraham Eisenhower's veterinarian establishment. Milton, frail and spindly from scarlet fever in his fourth year, was a frequent outcast kibitzer, to be seized unawares by mischievous hands and flung bodily into the black haymow amid terrifying cries of "Lions! Tigers! Snakes...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
...appears that you . . . crawled up into the haymow in the loft and went to sleep. And, in your journalistic slumber, your uninformed, vague subconscious mind caused you to use the adjective "sleepier" about the most wide-awake town in Kentucky...