Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to debate,"' Thornton roared back, "I'll debate him-when and if he wins his primary fight. I'm going to ask him some technical questions about farming and I want real farmers to hear his answers. You have said that if the people of Colorado wanted a person who could do farm chores, they would have nominated Man Mountain Dean. You meant this as ridicule against every dirt farmer and his family in Colorado...
...Pincher Creek colonists were already eating vegetables from their Washington farm, looking forward to harvests of apples, cherries, raspberries, peaches and grapes. Even more gratifying to Gross was the welcome their new neighbors extended: "People from the Methodist, Mennonite and Lutheran churches came to visit us. They were very kind. There has been no objection against us whatever...
...Force pilot, after mushing around in a plane so full of creeps that it should have been deadlined long ago, manages to get by an enemy pig, drop an aimable cluster for a shack, and then grease it in without bugging out or buying a farm, would he be likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy...
...Farm-as in "to buy a farm," to crash...
...FARM-TRACTOR SALES this year will trail 1955 volume by at least 20%, the industry believes. Falling sales, because of drought and lagging farm income, will force International Harvester Co. to halt production at two plants for at least five weeks, starting Oct. 1. Farm-equipment slump has also prompted merger talks between Chicago's J. I. Case Co., which has shut down two plants, and money-losing Oliver Corp...