Word: graze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most notorious rabblerousers, governor of Georgia for six years (1933-36, 41-42). Herman watched his father run the state with the fist of a dictator, spit tobacco at his foes and graze milk cows on the statehouse lawn. He also saw his father try-and fail-to do what Herman has now done: turn Walter George out of the U.S. Senate...
...surplus commodities. Benson explained: "We would use the surplus to use up the surplus." Farmers who joined the conservation reserve would get compensation for taking acres out of production for five to ten years and for planting grass or trees; these farmers would have to guarantee not to graze livestock on their conservation reserve for a specified period, so as not to add to the surplus of livestock and food...
...Shame on Reader Coggin for not recognizing such denizens of U.S. folklore. The gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves...
...checks on the President's heart showed satisfactory healing, and the doctors reduced the daily cardiograms from two to one a day (just before breakfast). Use of the oxygen tent was discontinued altogether. Ike listened to music by Bach, e.g., Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze, which he had requested, and a pretty Army nurse, First Lieut. Lorraine P. Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room, and read selected news...
...plan to take 40 million acres out of production by paying farmers some $500 million a year to plant grass and cover crops rather than commercial crops. Farm economists were quick to point out that this plan, like almost all farm plans, has a loophole for farmers. Farmers could graze cattle on the idle land, and by increasing beef production would put a downward pressure on beef prices...