Word: farming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farmer's wife, and this letter is prompted by Max Factor's remark and insinuation that farm women do not wear lipstick! I would like Mr. Factor to know that my hair is styled at Antoine's, I buy Rubinstein, Arden and Antoine cosmetics, and did buy Max Factor's lipstick...
...mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born Israelis who led the Sinai war, show signs of wanting to look out for themselves as their more communal-minded parents never did. In the burgeoning cities, university-trained top civil servants complain that...
...second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through the dusk...
...Today the paper employs 500 card-carrying newsmen, has just moved into a gleaming new Peking building equipped with eight gleaming new presses from East Germany, and can claim some of the most devoted readers in the world. Issues are posted at city intersections, read aloud down on the farm, devoured top to bottom and right to left by jailed counter-revolutionaries taking the cure, and spelled out by Asiatic nomads who will walk many a mile for the camel that brings in their copies...
Appliance sales by manufacturers turned up in May as dealers started rebuilding depleted stocks. Though the rise might be seasonal the National Electrical Manufacturers Assn. reported electric ranges up 7%, refrigerators up 33%, farm and home freezers...