Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the local peasants. But before the peasants could quite get used to their happy new condition, the Communist Party workers moved into Morawice, urged that they merge their holdings into Soviet-type collective farms. When the .peasants hesitated, the Communists turned the economic screws, demanded larger deliverfes of corn, milk and potatoes. More in the spirit of Poland's traditional agricultural "circles" than from socialist leanings, one group of 13 families pooled their 100 acres of land and formed a collective called Victoria...
...Listened quite patiently as Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
...arbutus and the goldenrod The heart of the North may cheer And sunflower, cactus and poppy To sierra and plain be dear, And jasmine and magnolia The crest of the South adorn; But the wide Republic's emblem Is the bounteous, golden Corn...
...five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside his music." Says his manager, Connie B. Gay, who is the chief...
...comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze, I'll do as I please, just bummin' around") that sold almost a million copies...