Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interlocutor: "All this country needs is a little water and some good people." Mr. Bones: "That's all hell needs, too" For months, as high winds scourged their dry and drifting acres and gritty clouds hazed the sun, the farmers of the new dust bowl had prayed for rain. Last week black storm clouds churned over land that had known drought for four long years-over west Texas and the gasping Panhandle, over southern and western Oklahoma, over eastern New Mexico-and the water came drumming down. It rained for days. In many an area, the drought-stricken found...
Sunrise Service (Sun. 8 a.m., CBS). The 34th annual Easter service from Hollywood Bowl...
...propagandists of Red China and Russia make it apparent that their purpose is to dominate all of Southeast Asia . . . the so-called 'rice bowl' which helps to feed the densely populated region that extends from India to Japan. It is rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and iron ore [and lies] astride the most direct and best-developed sea and air routes between the Pacific and South Asia. It has major naval and air bases...
Short-story fans and admirers of Anton Chekhov should be as happy these days as a muzhik over a bowl of borsch. Since the end of the war Chekhov's complete works have been published in Russia, and translators have had their choice of some 200 stories (out of Chekhov's 600) that were unknown in English. In The Woman in the Case and The Unknown Chekhov, 37 of these stories and a handful of articles and sketches are published in the U.S. for the first time. They include some first-rate Chekhov...
...Devised in 1935 by a German immigrant farmer named Fred Hoeme after he discovered that an area of his Oklahoma dust-bowl farm which had been torn by some heavy road machinery was the only section on which he could grow a crop...