Word: moo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer might be asked as many as 1,267 questions, but the questions must be carefully worded. Should a researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might reply with the modern cowshed. But if he is asked, "What do you call the place where you keep Moo?" he might say byre (Northumberland), cowhowel or cowhoyle (Yorkshire'). shippom (Lancashire), mistal (west Yorkshire) or shobbin (Devon...
...keep it out of the Big Ten. In a league where almost every school is a symbol of state pride, the rivalry between Michigan and M.S.U. became understandably bitter. This week the two rivals meet again, and Michigan's campus will be littered with signs reading "Cream MOO U," an unkind reference to State's beginnings as a cow college...
...Pronounced shi-boo-gum-moo, from an Indian word meaning "gathering place...
...took three radio sound men, a control-room engineer and five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies...
...searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also U.N.'s most spirited heckler of the Russians, made up fictitious Russian proverbs to confound Vishinsky at his own game ("The more moo, the less milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister, was there only eight months before becoming Foreign Secretary. At 51, he is the youngest of the Tory...