Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Americans disagree. Their side of the argument is presented by the junior Senator from Delaware, John Williams. This small-town chicken-feed dealer with a mousy look and a whispering voice has almost nothing in common with the great prosecutors and muckrakers of U.S. history, with Lincoln Steffens or Tom Walsh. Both he and they, however, did more than expose individuals; they exposed systems of corruption. As Harry Truman says, rascals are always around. But as John Williams says, the smug tolerance of rascals is not always around-and that smugness shocks Williams more than the presence of some...
...Warrior King of France, born 1553, assassinated 1610, and still remembered affectionately for his comment: "I should like to see a chicken in the pot of every Frenchman on Sundays...
...Strong's slowly changing attitude toward Lincoln. At first, he mistrusted a presidential candidate whose main claim to office seemed "the fact that he split rails when he was a boy." Later he ranted against the evacuation of Fort Sumter: "The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers." But once the war began in earnest, he was quick to sense Lincoln's rare qualities and wrote of him with affection...
...this visit Strong brought back a fine Lincoln story. Strong had asked Lincoln to pardon an imprisoned man. The papers for a pardon, replied Lincoln, "must be referred to the Attorney-General, but I guess it will be all right, for me and the Attorney-General's very chicken-hearted...
...June day last year, two Mennonite lay missionaries set out from their homes in Virginia as traveling evangelists. Lawrence Brunk and his brother George, a professor of Bible studies at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va., had pooled their resources (mainly $35,000 which Lawrence had made on his chicken farm). They bought a tent big enough to seat 1,500 people, a truck to carry it and a trailer for Lawrence, his wife and three children to live...