Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price supports at 1957 levels (TIME, April 14). But he had little intersectional support; Republican Willard S. Curtin polled his Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, found them mostly for flexible supports or for no supports at all. Said Sam Rayburn: "Nobody told me anything about removing Benson." Said Maine Democrat Frank Coffin, from the midst of dairy country: "There was no reaction to the veto...
...Cuts. "Hardly any of my constituents are in favor of a tax cut," reported California Republican Bob Wilson. "I found more insistence upon tax cuts in Washington than at home," said Maine's Coffin. That old tax cutter, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, found the support he was looking for, but Republican Congressman Robert Michel of hard-hit Peoria (farm machinery) changed his mind, said he would vote against an immediate cut. Said Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills: "Everyone would welcome a tax cut, of course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska...
...South Africa's Parliament last week Opposition Leader Sir De Villiers Graaff called for a vote of no confidence in the government. "Apartheid," he cried, "has become something like Mohammed's coffin suspended between the heaven of total apartheid and the earth of the hard facts of the South African situation, with farmers, industrialists and mining interests demanding more labor...
...horse "excepting on the racecourse." Hippophobe Hirst went shooting mounted on a massive bull of "uncertain temper," and used in place of pointers "a crowd of vivacious and sagacious pigs, all of whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight stout widows." Mr. Hirst's wish had been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise...
...ballet dancer's tour en I'air) to achieve Fenton's No. 1 fundamental: balance. "If a punter is balanced, he'll be accurate," says Father Fenton. Fenton strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with it. The best ones can even tack the ball into a wind angling up the field to get a few added yards. One other Fenton...