Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia Chamber of Commerce official: "Sentimentalists don't want their historic James River to become the Ruhr of the South, but it's bound to happen.") Along the York River, a new $70 million American Oil Co. refinery is in full operation near Yorktown, where the grass-carpeted trenches of the final battle for American independence still twist in a mystifying maze. And along the Potomac, in the Arlington-Alexandria area across from the nation's capital, are beehives of brick housing developments inhabited by thousands of federal workers viewed by most Virginians as foreigners...
...speak a vocabulary in which "first" is still "foist." When he came to Harvard, he knew only six people in his class, but he widened his acquaintance by trying out for football manager (unsuccessfully), stroking a 150-lb. crew in his sophomore year (his shell got tangled in high grass during a race against Middlesex School), and writing for the Lampoon...
Actually Boston's story is simple. Boston was first a part of the Atlantic Ocean. Gradually the ocean gave way to the North End, and cows came to feed on the greener, moister North End grass. Puritans shortly followed, anxious to turn cows into milk; and, pursued by Puritans, the cows wandered about the North End, laying out Boston's streets...
Volunteer Victory. Whatever its elocution troubles at the national level, the Democratic Party proved in the 1956 election that it has great grass-roots strength. Items: the slightly strengthened congressional position, the successful battle for at least 15 statehouses. the increase in the number of state legislators in such Republican strongholds as South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon and California. The waning influence of its old-line, patronage-powered machines in the big cities, notably Chicago and New York, was offset by the work of aggressive "new look" (i.e., post-Truman) volunteers in California, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania...
Down & Up. As rumors spread on Bay Street that the Toronto Stock Exchange would probably suspend Chatco, the speculators sold thousands of shares short, figuring that the suspension would knock down the price of Chatco as it did Great Sweet Grass Oils only three weeks before (TIME, Nov. 5). But the short sellers made one big mistake: they failed to realize that Chatco has only 160,000 shares outstanding. Shannon owned about 36,000 shares, and the Leonhardt interests a big chunk of the rest, leaving few shares around for trading. When the suspension was announced, the stock dropped from...