Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After an 80-m.p.h. drive to the plantation of a friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile...
...only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar curtain-call farewell: "That's all there is, there isn't any more...
...possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger, a detachment of Rangers found the bodies of comrades butchered by the Indians, and ate them raw. Rogers, as usual, survived (49 others died) and commented simply...
...Washington heat (90°), Rockefeller turned up at the Capitol Hill Club headquarters at 214 First Street S.E. †for Pepsi-Cola-on-the-rocks (later sipping Dubonnet, he professionally held it under the table whenever he saw a photographer approaching) and an informal feed of Maine lobster and corn on the cob in the club garden...
...when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts the bank's rising deposits on his office wall. In 1954 he saw an opportunity to grow in one jump. He urged Chairman Jackson to buy out the century-old Corn Exchange Bank, which had 78 branches and $774 million in deposits, and paid a premium of $25 a share to get the Corn Exchange stock. The price proved right. The merged bank's deposits rose to $3.2 billion in 1958. With the New York Trust Co. branches he will have...