Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From his farm, Ike made trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...
...Farm automation: most depressing thing I have ever read. I shall retire with my Currier & Ives, and memories of barefoot childhood, scrunching behind fresh furrows, and the excitement of discovering eggs in the corners of the barnyard...
...Communist book, no index of success or failure is more sternly noted than the degree of farm collectivization. Among the satellites, impoverished Bulgaria ranks highest, with 95%. Hungary ranks second to last, ahead only of Poland. Ever since the Hungarian revolt, when farmers up and left the collectives, the Communist leaders have had a hard time getting them back. Last December Hungary's Party Boss Janos Kadar confessed to Moscow that only 17% of the land was collectivized, and added, "We know we are behind other Socialist countries . . . but we are moving ahead as quickly...
...Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine...
...cumulative" poet interested in a flowing effect, Hodgson shuns brilliant images that grasp the eye. His life is the same way. Passersby are shocked at the disrepair of the farm that he has never worked, at the unruly weeds that he lets grow. An alert, clear-eyed man who looks 20 years younger than his age, Hodgson has no time for such practical things ("Time, you old gypsy man, / Will you not stay, / Put up your caravan / Just for one day?"). Says he in his musing, friendly tone: "What we have to consider is the brevity of life." His real...