Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House Adlai Stevenson got his Cabinet lunch (chicken livers, mushrooms & bacon, jellied pineapple salad and canteloupe à la mode) and more than an hour's powwow with Harry Truman and Vice Presidential Nominee John Sparkman concerning campaign plans. He also got a 20-minute intelligence briefing on the Korean war and the international situation in general. Present at the briefing, by order of Harry Truman, were C.I.A. Director General Walter Bedell Smith and General of the Army Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...them form their battalions, captained by the lords of the press, the oil tycoons of Houston, and the moneychangers of Wall Street," he cried. "Let them ride to battle in their motors, forgetful of the day when there was no chicken and there was no pot ..." He wound up with a tinny imitation of Tory Winston Churchill's Dunkirk pledge: "We shall fight them in the cities and fight them in the towns. We shall fight in the counties and fight in the precincts. We shall never surrender . . . We have triumphed before. We shall triumph again...
...boys had decided to shoot a young man who was walking along a shadowed path. One shot, fired by Ferrick, dropped him dead. Not until reading the papers later did they know he was a rabbinical student named Samuel Bernard London. Their reason: to prove they weren't "chicken...
...youngest and prettiest delegates was the central figure in a struggle over civil rights. Mrs. Mildred Younger, a 31-year-old Los Angeles housewife, presided over the civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said she: "I was two years old the first time I went on the floor of the legislature...
Across the heart of Germany, from the Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...