Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of it was pure corn, or just plain tasteless-as in Los Angeles, when he referred to "the man who watches over us in heaven this afternoon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy." At one point, he had talked so long that Lady Bird sent a note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint...
...Orval Faubus saw no reason to change the tactics that had won for him five consecutive two-year gubernatorial terms. So the "po' boy from Greasy Creek" unloaded corn pone on the electorate and calumny on the head of his Repub'ican opponent, Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother. Rockefeller's energetic campaigning and well-financed organization were not enough, and Faubus won by a country mile...
Illinois, stereotyped by many as the buckle on the corn belt, in reality boasts an ethnic, economic, and political diversity which make it something of an American in miniature. Chicago, which has nearly as many Negroes as Alabama and more Poles than any city except War-saw, blends sophistication and rawness as starkly as any urban center in the East or Far West. Shady suburbs surround the "crossroads of the nation" in a long are of affluence. In mid-state, a broad swathe of black top-soil has nurtured corn and conservatism for nearly a century and a half...
Such assurances were hardly enough to allay farmers' fears, so Goldwater summoned G.O.P. leaders from eleven farm states to a secret strategy meeting at Des Moines' Municipal Airport. He listened to their views for nearly an hour. A few days later, at the National Corn-Picking Contest at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Barry told some 20,000 farm folk: "You and I and all good Americans, we all want a free and prosperous American agriculture, with a minimum of federal controls and intervention. That is the direction in which we must move-forward, toward freedom and progress...
Before she became sensitive about it, she used to say, "My art belongs to daddy," and similar things that would make corn blush. Born in 1933, she was raised in Hollywood. When her father moved to Manhattan to become a television star, she went to the Spence School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her professional debut in 1951 on Robert Montgomery Presents, playing opposite her father in a spy story. He did not think that he was uncovering a great talent and in fact tried to discourage her from becoming an actress, hoping that she would...