Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards that read: NIGGERS GO HOME! CHICKEN WHITES go TO SCHOOL WITH JIGS! One night the whites burned a Negro in effigy on the school flagpole. The white hoodlums proclaimed a school strike, sent off a telegram to Governor Faubus: IN ORDER TO STAY INTEGRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. Said Faubus, in theory a state Governor with...
...chicken and eggs she went to one shop, for olive oil or wine to another. She could not buy pork where she bought veal. If she wanted sausages, she could not expect to find eggs at a nearby counter. After both industries became state monopolies, she had to go to the neighborhood tobacconist to buy salt. Each day she had to visit up to a dozen different shops to buy just enough food to last until the next day. Each day shopping for food alone took anything up to four hours...
...Malayan pineapples to frozen pizzas and spaghetti in plastic bags. Increasingly, middle-class housewives leave their maids at home (thus ending the maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally wheel their market carts in air-conditioned luxury past shelves labeled in English "roast chicken" (which presumably sounds more exotic than polio arrosto). Tommy-gun-toting guards accompany the cashiers to the company's central office with the day's take; the supermarkets' loss from theft is less than...
...cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found a little bribery-rumored to be $50,000-irresistible. "He is." admitted the Prime Minister, "now richer than...
Came the time when Ernie was on location in Arizona, shooting The Badlanders, and who should be playing opposite him but Katy Jurado, a very classy actress-no spring chicken, but. as they say, built. When she heard that Ernie and Rhoda had split, she came around, just neighborly like, to say she was sorry. "Waddayawanna do tonight." said Ernie, and they went out on the town...