Word: bin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farmer in kind for land which he agrees to take out of production. Under this program, no farmer would receive funds from the Federal government. Instead, for example, a wheat-grower will allow his land to lie fallow, receiving the equivalent amount of grain from the Federal storage bin. He would then sell this wheat at market prices...
...with a Sten gun. but the Ghanaians turned them back at bayonet point. "Lumumba must die!" the crowd shouted. "He made us kill our brothers!" For nine hours' Lumumba cowered inside, first in a laundry closet and then in a bedroom, while Lundula hid out in a vegetable bin...
...sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
...coffee a month in all-night campus snack bars, argued art, social science and politics into the abstract hours. He slept mainly in the back seat of his moldering Chevy, and ate cold hamburgers provided by a Nietzsche-soaked friend who worked in a short-order bin. Sometimes he slept on the window seat in the apartment Sue shared with two other girls, now says he scrupulously disappeared at mealtimes to preserve his dignity. It is more likely that he was avoiding the filets of horsemeat that one of the girls regularly fingered from her job in a pet shop...
...Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with the President's tacit blessing, is planning to speak out with a farm program of his own, departing from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's rigidities enough to sidestep the massive dislike that Benson has piled up among the farmers...