Word: deadwood
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Though Republican leaders in Oregon wasted no love on their maverick U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, there was just no stopping him. The only real opposition that turned up against him in last week's primary was a lantern-jawed farmer from Deadwood named David I. Hoover, who had never run for office before. Hoover, an ex-deputy sheriff from Los Angeles, implied that Morse was a Communist or worse, and businessmen, lumbermen, doctors backed Farmer Hoover with wads of cash. But when the returns were in Morse had beaten Hoover by a 2-to-1 vote, and seemed virtually...
Finally, the dime novel appeared with sterling characters of the Deadwood Dick and Buffalo Bill variety. This was the literature that percolated down to the masses and stimulated the young man to follow the setting sun through the Cumberland gap to the west...
...volunteers were turned away. General Sun was heartened. With the troops he had already trained and those in training (well over 100,000), he feels that he can stand off at least the first waves of a Communist invasion. He has shaken up the officer corps, though too much deadwood still remains. He needs more materiel and more parts for vehicles. But he insists that his "boys are working like beavers because they know now what they are fighting...
...brand of magnificence. It is amazingly clean, awesomely spacious. It has ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
Last week, Herberger looked something like deadwood himself. The board got him to kick himself upstairs to chairman. In as president went 54-year-old Bert Prall, Butler's retail boss. Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...