Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost with one voice, the Senate last week angrily had its say about allies who trade with Communists. Missouri's Senator James P. Kern thought he had a way to discourage them: "Not one gun, not one barrel of gasoline, not one ton of rubber has been withheld from Marshall Plan countries which were shipping [war] materials ... to Russia and her satellite nations." He wanted a law forbidding EGA to send raw materials or financial aid to any Marshall Plan nation which continues trafficking with Communist countries...
This year, as election time approached, a fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election...
...Barrel. Cockfighting is illegal in every state of the Union. Nevertheless it is still an undercover sport in the U.S., and currently enjoying a lively vogue in Southern California...
...Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...
...human character, and even despite his high-spirited approach to the English language-which he seems to regard as a lariat for the roping of great strong verbs, soft lovely nouns, and even helpless little prepositions. Nevertheless, Author Mason can keep a story rolling like a navvy with a barrel, and that one perilous, amazing skill makes it hard to ignore what's happening...