Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting. All the rabbits got clean away, without a shot fired...
There was one other pleasant chore for the President before he drove to his Gettysburg farm to spend the New Year holiday: the presidential gift to 1,100 White House employes, including the crew of the Columbine III, naval personnel from Camp David, motor-pool mechanics and servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President...
...many ways changing the course of U.S. life itself. Though only one in ten ever traded fire with the enemy, most grew to understand men and machines, brought back technical and supervisory proficiency that encouraged and staffed the postwar technological revolution-from TV repair shop to nuclear lab, from farm to Ford Motor Co. They coupled a broadened outlook with a conservative, down-to-earth manner that is reflected in the nation's growing calmness before cold-war threats. Many absorbed a sense of order, organization and responsibility that became the lifeblood of corporations, unions, colleges...
...badly is that peasants prefer to concentrate on their own cows and individual plots, which they are allowed as a sideline. Khrushchev wants to abolish this privilege. The people of his native village of Kalinovka, he said, last year "at my suggestion sold their cows to the collective farm . . . and, far from making out worse, have actually improved their material position." Their women were also freed, he pointed out, for more work on the collective. And in a significant echo of China's commotion, the Soviet Premier urged: "The time has come to organize, not only in towns...
...bodies will grip the task with all their energy," concluded Khrushchev, "the goals set by the seven-year plan will not only be fulfilled but overfulfilled." In other words, the party must get tougher with the peasants-or Khrushchev is not going to hit his ambitious target of raising farm production another...