Word: bounteous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since it became a state, Kansas handed a second term to a Democratic Governor. The winner, Banker George Docking, shrewdly spent his first two years building a smooth-running donkey engine in this G.O.P. stronghold, won friends in thrifty Kansas by vetoing a state sales tax increase, relied on bounteous crops and rural content, neatly knocked down promising Republican Contender Clyde Reed...
Farm Prices. Thanks to lean years, the Democrats have made serious inroads into the state houses and congressional districts of the traditionally Republican Midwest. But 1958 has blessed farmers with bounteous crops-and hiked farm income 22% above last year. Agriculture Secretary...
...arbutus and the goldenrod The heart of the North may cheer And sunflower, cactus and poppy To sierra and plain be dear, And jasmine and magnolia The crest of the South adorn; But the wide Republic's emblem Is the bounteous, golden Corn...
...Cauca River rises in the mountains of southern Colombia, foams furiously down their steep slopes, then runs placidly northward through a balmy (average temperature 78°), verdant valley. The Cauca Valley, twelve miles wide and 125 miles long, is the country's most bounteous food producer-bananas, sugar, potatoes, coffee, rice, beef, milk. Its center is the warmhearted city of Cali, whose 500.000 inhabitants manage to combine plenty of industrial zip (in tires, leather, drugs, textiles) with a pleasant, semitropical way of life that still reserves the time from noon to 2:30 for lunch and siesta...
...last week Scots were perky. For Scotland is enjoying a prosperity so bounteous that the canny Scots regard it almost with suspicion. Dollarwise, Scots boast that Scotland, with a population (5,000,000) smaller than London's, has been practically supporting England since the war. If Scotland were not tied to the English economy, they suggest, it could have been reveling in dollar prosperity all during the postwar years of austerity...