Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bean Pots & Trouble. Then in the '30s, his books stopped selling. Money came seldom and trouble often. Once, on an unconventional camping trip, the poet scalded his right foot by stepping in a pot of hot bean soup. Police said he had been dancing in the moonlight. He demanded relief for poets from a municipal relief agency. Given a $2.50 voucher for groceries, he complained that he had no home, no way of cooking the groceries, and cried indignantly that he was unable to eat the voucher itself. He was reported dying of tuberculosis, and 50 Greenwich Village poets...
...Maroa, Ill., Herbert Marlow, a fun-loving farmer, mounted Oscar, a stuffed pheasant, in his fenced-in bean field, then sat back to watch the sport from his picture window. Oscar was noticed by more than 100 passing hunters. Only two of them asked Farmer Marlow's permission to take a shot at him. The others generally brought their cars to screeching stops and leaped out to blaze away at the stuffed bird. After one hunter nearly shot his companion in his haste to get the bird, Mrs. Marlow made her husband bring Oscar back into the house...
...mile peninsula in the Delaware River, a mile below Trenton, the largest steelworks ever built at one time is rising in the rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...
...hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...
...bean five days since the Cambridge (England by Jove) crew first began practice on the Housatonic, and ever since dispatches have been coming up from New Haven claiming the Britishers are better than good...