Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
...Little Orval," said J. Sam Faubus, "he was different to most boys. Kids like to get into mischief, but all he ever did was read books. He never done anything if he couldn't do it perfectly. You'd never find a weed in his row of corn...
Weeds in the Corn. Back in the Ozark hills Uncle Sam Faubus unknowingly told, in just a few words, why Orval had done all he had done. In the little house near Greasy Creek, he turned to his wife and exclaimed: "Why, Orval is the second-most thing in the papers these days." Replied she: "Firstmost thing." "Yep," agreed Uncle Sam. "Well, that's the way Orval always wanted...
...Indian communities, 300,000 children have no schools and one out of every two Mexicans is still illiterate. The population of the Federal District, now 4.5 million, will probably hit 7,000,000 by 1966, causing serious food, water and school shortages. And because of drought and population increase, corn-eating Mexico has been forced to import corn from the U.S. for its tortillas, tacos and enchiladas...
...these speeches, rounded up in one long article that filled half of Pravda and was broadcast lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back...