Word: donkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...Boss Dorr was out in the wilds of eastern Anatolia. He asked an old farmer if he had heard of the Marshall Plan. Indeed the farmer had. "Before Marshall," the old man said, "there was no hard road near my house. I could only get 20 kilos on my donkey's back. If I put more on him, he sunk into the mud. Now I can put 30 kilos on the donkey, thanks to the Marshall Plan...
...people crowded into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church, and a donkey cart (lent by General George C. Marshall, who got it as a present from grateful Sicilians), adorned with paintings of Truman and Marshall...
...that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary to ask." North Carolina's Democratic Senator Willis Smith thought the elephant looked more like a Democratic donkey: "I got no impression from General Eisenhower about his politics. But since the Republicans don't seem to want him, I don't know why we shouldn't claim him." North Carolina's Democratic Congressman Harold D. Cooley decided that Ike was not a political animal...
...Portland, Ore., photographers gathered to record the second birthday of Nicholas Delano Seagraves, first great-grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Young Nicholas, a husky 30-pounder, obliged by mounting a one-eared toy donkey and flashing a smile that had more than passing resemblance to great-grandmother Eleanor. "He loves to eat," said his mother, the former "Sistie" Dall, "and there isn't anything he doesn't like. He has all the teeth he's supposed to have, but I don't know just how many that...