Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never, built the gallery and Browere never got the money to turn his plasters to bronze. Discouraged, he left deathbed instructions that his busts should be stored for 40 years, until the nation learned to appreciate them. Ever since, with brief intervals, they have been weathering in a Catskill barn...
...beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side of the barn...
...Glowna a group was put in a camp with no heat and a cement floor, with only used straw for mattresses. "No lavatories or hot water were available. The children born in the frozen barn were washed with lukewarm coffee as no warm water was available...
There are three Tennessees. There is East Tennessee, the home of shrewd mountain traders, Republicans, the Great Smokies, Knoxville and the TVA. There is Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, a land of bluegrass, rich farms, horsey squires (who keep a fighting-cock in the tobacco barn), of Nashville, "Athens of the South." There is cotton-growing West Tennessee, flatland of "red-necks," of Memphis, and Beale Street, Mistuh Ed Crump and the Mississippi...
...other hand, maybe Mickey was honestly trying to provide some barn-door proof of the far-and-wide presence of Communism, so that the common man could see and beware accordingly. It is well known around Kerry Corner that the guiding drive in his life--next to his pride in his dozen-odd strapping children and in his prosperous trucking business--is a very real and sincere, if slightly confused, hatred of Communism. The resolution is certainly couched in no niggardly terms, and Mickey very probably meant it when he said, "WHEREAS: Communism is the world's greatest curse today...