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Waterworks & TV. Beneath this vast, smothering blanket is the American farmer-still an individualist. He remains rooted to the earth, bound for good or ill to the wind and the rain, the snow and the sun. He is still conservative, somewhat distrustful of the outsider, does much of his buying by mail, and throws his nickels around as if they were manhole covers. He complains endlessly about his lot, but he would not trade with anyone. He is likely to own a "waterworks" (indoor plumbing), a Deepfreeze, a piano, television and hi-fi sets, and a bank account...
...services four or five times each day in the big, steel-sided tabernacle, and Bible lessons for the children. Days began with Scripture readings and ended with the singing of hymns. Nights, the men and women swapped stories around campfires before bedding down in trailers or in tents and blanket rolls laid out beneath the pine trees...
...foamy wake of public opinion bobs a bell buoy of truth. Perhaps this decision will elucidate the obvious: 1) that the U.S. is not a "Christian" nation; 2) that the slogan "In God We Trust" is probably also unconstitutional; 3) that attempts at blanket religion are encroachments upon the freedoms of every human, Christian or nonChristian...
...patent leather hats, occasionally glimpsed rumbling down narrow highways or patrolling the ridges of the hills, still maintain Franco's police state. It is a regime that does not keep the nation in chains but covers it like a soggy blanket...
...Crimson attack was stymied by the princeton defense which covered Williams and Watts like a blanket. The midfielders were nuwilling or unable to pick up the slack and move in to shoot them selves, and the result was let' argic, ineffective offense...