Word: churns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa who churn butter from the state's 5,000,000-odd cows, the word oleomargarine induces not the scientific but the fighting temper. Last week, Iowa State College, which Hawkeyes proudly call a cow college, faced the consequences of having shared the butter-makers' feelings. The college was charged with having sidetracked a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study which said a good word for margarine. The American Association of University Professors threatened to investigate...
...landlord held him to his lease by telling him a story: Two little frogs fell into a churn full of cream. One swam around, got tired and decided he might as well drown. The other kept on swimming until he felt an island forming under him -an island of butter formed by his paddling. "Now," said the landlord, "do you want to be the little frog that gave up easily or will you be the one to keep on paddling and finally win out?" Adrian thought he would paddle...
...this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...
Even in midwinter, the land does not hold back its wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
After many a negative, Russia had its first positive victory last week. Russia's best general, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, retook Rostov-on-Don and for the first time made the Germans get their tails up and churn their shanks in the general direction of Berlin...