Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...
...important spring wheat crop in Montana, the Dakotas and the Canadian prairie provinces will be a near failure. Some of the fields are hardly worth harvesting; others have been mowed for forage. East of the Rocky Mountains most of the ranges are bare, and cattle are being fed with trucked-in hay or grain. If heavy rain falls in late July, it will turn the ranges green-but it will not rescue the wheat...
...tabloid-titillating ''shy bride" of the 1920's, who left Millionaire Fiancé Alister McCormick at the Chicago church three times in 1922, spurned all the rest of her claimed 65 proposals from an Almanach de Gotha of suitors, made even her well-heeled father "fed up to the limit with Mary's caprices"; in London...
...chilling air, they had their breakfast and, carrying light packs, traversed upward through thickets of aspen and pine and cedar and wild flowers. Now and then they recrossed the stream and stopped to drink, and after an hour, high in the mountain, they found the waterfall that fed the stream below. Clambering across a rockslide, they tucked some beer into the water, built a fire and cooked their lunch. When they returned to their camp, they stripped and plunged with agonized cries into a lake cold enough to recall Joyce's scrotum-tightening...
...Renaissance, then chucked it all in 1950 to lead a party of seven other reluctant socialites on an abortive, civilization-fleeing cruise to the Windward Islands; of a heart attack, in Winchendon, Mass. Proclaimed Sullivan, as the schooner Blue Goose glided into the horizon: "We're fed up [with society]. We are tired of pretense and the false way of life." The idyl lasted six months...