Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...
Crimson goalie Tom Bagnoli gave a vivid demonstration of courage, making many saves and quarterbacking the defense despite a broken right hand. One day earlier, it was extremely doubtful that Bagnoli would even see action. In practice Friday, Bagnoli was determinedly trying to convince Bruce Munro that he was ready to start the Brown game...
Captain Lanny Keyes went the distance at fullback despite pulled muscles and bruised insteps that had forced him to forgo kicking for distance. But he too, even in his crippled condition, was tough to deal with...
...leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley his due and his comeuppance too. If he remains as short of color as ever, he will at least be better understood...
...close to comic opera as a shooting war could be. Some members of the Cabinet were so incompetent that only blind party loyalty could account for his devotion. His political mentor, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, was so obviously the errand boy of the trusts that not even the wildest admirer of McKinley could hope to explain away the President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley as his own man. If he rooted for the trusts, it was because he believed that business and U.S. destiny were on the same path. If he took...