Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...
...squat, package laden man saw the bushel basket of mice in Filene's and snapped at his spouse, "That's you all over again. The great collector...
...style speaking in tongues had its origin at a meeting near Interlaken, Switzerland, in 1948, at which a group of North American Protestant evangelical leaders, including Billy Graham and Dr. Harold Ockenga of Boston's Park Street Church, decided that European Protestantism was hiding its light under a bushel. Though there were 28 Protestant religious stations outside the U.S., they noted, there was not one in Europe-which had two-thirds of the radio sets outside...
...incessant tidbit collecting, he is too jaded to bother. Last week his copy read as if the pufflicty seekers had landed their puffs intact. "In my younger days." said the columnist, "when I used to hustle, it was a lot more exciting. Now the copy comes in by the bushel, and I sit around filling up the wastebasket and staring at the ceiling waiting for an idea to come...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had asked for authority to drop the market price of corn down to $1 a bushel in order to pressure farmers into the acreage-restriction program. The House gave him the authority, but the Senate denied it, and Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, extracted a promise from his Senate Democratic colleague, Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender, that he would not give Freeman the power to drop prices. To help this toothless program through Congress, Secretary Freeman sweetened the pot to the tune of some $2 billion this year by raising support prices for dairy...