Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democratic Party that has governed Italy since the war. The little man's big ambition: at 50, to become Premier of Italy. In pursuit of his dream, Fanfani popped up last week on the cobblestones of Palermo, in the sunny piazzas of a dozen southern farm towns, in the shadows of Milan's cathedral, in the monarchist stronghold of Naples. Since campaign's start he had delivered 140 speeches, talked in melodious tones, with arms aflail, for more than 200 hours to crowds ranging from a few hundred to more than...
While litigious, blonde Bobo Rockefeller was asked to cough up $2,547.92, awarded a Manhattan decorator in a suit over some unpaid bills, her cowpokin' ex-husband Winthrop augmented the family coffers by $171,000. At an auction on his Arkansas farm, attended by some 4,000 cattle lovers, Millionaire Winnie disposed of 39 prize Santa Gertrudis cows and bulls at an average price of $4,380 per head...
...When he turned into the stretch at Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's
dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...looked about the countryside, at the farm houses and the billboards, and replied, "Why else would I come to this section of the country...
...students pestered Ergil to play lemon. Result: twice a week, after school hours, he conducts a seminar in philosophy. Ergil gets no added pay for the course, and students get no course credit, but attendance is large, even on afternoons when the baseball team plays at home. A Mexican farm laborer's son assessed the seminar: "Everywhere else people tell you what to think. In other classes, reasons are given out of a book. Here, I get them out of myself...