Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before he arrived in Formosa last week (see Danger Zones). Douglas MacArthur paid his second visit within a month to the Korean fighting front. MacArthur's plane put down at a newly completed dirt airstrip in South Korea. The general alighted, talked briefly with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, Prime Minister Shin Sung Mo, and U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio. Said MacArthur to the Prime Minister: "You take care of the President. We are going to take care of your country...
...range of 17th Century American literature is not wide, and its forms are not overly refined. The early colonists were too busy building a civilization to write much about it. Yet its dirt-simple honesty and plow-ahead directness set the main style for later American writing, just as the rugged life it describes was the hardy set of roots which nourished the beginnings of American history...
...prefabricated houses. McCarthy had turned the results of his committee work and a 30,000-mile committee junket through the U.S. into a neat profit. The article was a straightaway description of federal housing legislation -the kind of article Lustron probably could have got free or at least dirt cheap from any Government housing...
Inhuman Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...
Across the fertile countenance of the nation, the farmer bent his back in the June sun and worked the land. He labored wherever the earth lay open, the rain fell and the sun shone-from the lumpy flats of Aroostook County, Me., where the summer potatoes germinated in their dirt hills, to California's Imperial Valley, polka-dotted by the gold of new oranges and ripening honeydews...