Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many a playboy before him, Winthrop needed only a cause to set him to work. He found it in the plight of his adopted state, the butt of countless hillbilly jokes and the state with the second-lowest per-capita income in the union (lowest: Mississippi). Jobs were so scarce that 400,000 residents had been forced to leave the state in search of work. To check the emigration, the business men of Arkansas, under the leadership of C. Hamilton Moses, then chairman of Arkansas Power & Light, set up the Arkansas Economic Council in the middle 1940s to attract...
...head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
Power Play? Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was surprised by the plan, and particularly by the U.S. involvement in it-for John Foster Dulles, so long the butt of Socialists for his "brinkmanship," had become overnight a Socialist hero striving mightily to stay ferocious Sir Anthony from war. "Are we to take it that they also agreed with the proposition that the ships are to have pilots of their own and are to go through the canal whether or not Egypt likes it?" he demanded. What alarmed Gaitskell most was Eden's implied threat to use force without...
Love's Comedy originally engendered violent outbursts of indignation. And no small part of it was aimed at Ibsen for daring to bring a clergyman on stage. But Ibsen went still further and made him the butt of satire, epitomized by the fact that the pastor has twelve children, eight of whom troop back and forth through the set--all of them girls--and his wife is again pregnant (and will doubtless present him with a thirteenth girl...
Attended by an array of Senators, Representatives and high-priced legal eagles, seven U.S. airlines appeared before the Civil Aeronautics Board last week and proceeded to knee, butt and gouge each other like dead-end kids battling for a prize. They were in fact battling for a prize, the New York-to-Miami run, estimated to be worth up to $5.5 million annually to the line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There...