Word: bolle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saves his true longing for the South, "the land of the boll weevil, where the laws are medieval," And he whines, "I want to go back to Swance, Where pellagra makes you scrawny," and then he swears, "Old times there are not forgotten, Whoppin' slaves and sellin' cotton...
...Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney, Stevenson renewed an acquaintance with a man who has left no doubt about his own candidacy. Talking to a reporter, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell asked: "Isn't that Governor Stevenson? I think I met him some years ago, but the boll weevils have got his hair, like mine." A hot tip floated through the room: "Put your money on Stevenson and Russell...
...Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...
...cauldron boll and bake...
...desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...