Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris, and soon after his discharge he went back to see some more of it. By 1920 he was living in a Left Bank lodging house, eating bean soup in a restaurant "so cheap not even Frenchmen would go there," and hearing excited talk about Corbusier and the new German moderns...
...went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
Local justice ordered the new landlords to pay the old a fair price for the bean fields, but the question of what to do about a displaced quarter-mile of vital state highway still remained. Like a link of pontoon bridge that has drifted downstream, one stretch of the highway lay useless at the valley's bottom, and the vagrant mountain sat camel-like astride the rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand...
Last week in Minneapolis, 16 prominent Congregationalist laymen (including Congressman Walter H. Judd, Scientist Robert A. Millikan) formed a committee to "oppose Congregational political action." The council, charged Committeeman Frank A. Bean, a Minneapolis executive, "violates the principles of Congregationalism and the concepts of the Constitution of the United States. We believe its approach to social, economic and political problems is basically materialistic and immoral...
...When some of the boys at school began tossing beans from a broken bean bag, Fourth" Grader Richard A. Christensen of Hartford, Conn, thought one of the beans lodged in his ear. He told his mother, but he felt no pain and she could find no bean. That was four months ago. Last week Richard was vindicated. Doctors, treating him for earache, removed a sure-enough navy bean with a half-inch green sprout...