Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally the crowd moved to the auditorium, people sat down, and candidates strode to the platform. The first speaker, a brusque, barrel-chested lad, bemoaned the fact that "we may have a team going without a coach." And sobbing, he sat down. Then a woman running for City Council arose and said absent-mindedly, "I am a candidate for re-election to the School Committee...
This book represents Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell's annual defense of a title that is indisputably his-America's No. 1 cracker-barrel pornographer. Caldwell has rarely overindulged in four-letter words; he is simply a master of what might be called dirty-situation comedy. Since about 40 million hard-a nd soft-cover copies of his 34 books have been snapped up by U.S. and foreign readers (God's Little Acre tops the list with more than 8,000,000 copies sold), the reader can only conclude that to leer is human...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
Knight's round was the second half of a double barrel. Earlier, two pro-Knight officers of the G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation...
...house Grand National Assembly, which is dominated by Menderes' Democratic Party, rushed through appropriations for new highways and schools and even repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics. But in his determination to win the October election, Menderes added another touch. His supporters rammed through a law that forbids Turkey's three other parties to form an election coalition against Menderes. The law prevents candidates from changing parties and bars mixed tickets...