Word: heifer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin...
...that it had not yet been truly "liberated." Before the war, the people could make as much tax-free Calvados as they wanted for local consumption. The Germans had decreed that each orchardist could distill only ten liters a year-hardly enough to wet the sale of a good heifer. The postliberation French government had not only failed to repeal the silly law, it had even tried to enforce...
...news about him. The Foxes took Rupert to the Stange Memorial Veterinary Clinic at Iowa State College. There, Dr. Mack Emmerson transplanted the pituitary gland from the skull of another bull to Rupert's flank. After the gland had had time to work, Rupert was given the heifer test again. Still no calves...
...TIME's bull turns out to be a heifer, it will be the bovine event of the year...
TIME's Young Bull is no "cute trick." Foddered on war's destruction, Europe's need, and two-year chunks of young men's lives, the heifer's growth will be a national disgrace...