Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ditch-Digging & Plumbing. On the record, the odds were in their favor; better than 90% of George Junior Republic's boys & girls have grown up to be useful and successful citizens. Most of the Republic's actual operating expenses are covered by contributions from outside friends, plus $65 monthly tuition paid by the parents and guardians of the majority of the citizens...
...Cadillacs. Even before he became a $12,500-a-year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
...nation of sabbath-keepers who do not go to church . . . We get free spectacles and false teeth and, for lack of hospital beds, may die in a ditch. We have probably the best children and the dullest adults in Europe. We are a Socialist-Monarchy that is really the last monument of liberalism." Speaking in Faversham, Kent, Tory Robert Boothby posed an earthier dilemma. To him, the proposed reduction of food imports seemed "a pretty prospect -an endless vista of free false teeth with nothing to bite...
...gained eight pounds during "retirement." From his mountain hideout overlooking a black sand beach on Formosa's southern coast, he had come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling the Communist coastal flank...
...tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...