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...oilmen from every major company have been converging on the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...
...again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
...grew larger and more disorganized. While the state troopers struggled bravely to keep the thousands away from the air strip, party workers urged them on. The police held their own for a moment, arm to arm. Then the trooper who was holding closed the main gate let out a groan and the Democratic tide poured through, while a party worker shrieked "Keep back...
...himself be drawn into a circle that he suspects has black magic links and leanings to perversion, he should talk at once to his doctor or a friendly parson who will respect his confidences." ¶ The Wisconsin Restaurant Association, meeting in Milwaukee, uttered a low moan and a loud groan over competition from church suppers, adopted a resolution calling on the state board of health to subject food-serving churches to the same health regulations as restaurants. Noting that one Milwaukee church served 1,200 fish dinners at its monthly Friday night party, Elmer A. Conforti, executive vice president...
Theodore Dreiser wrote like a man with a toothache, and his work has all the painful sincerity of a groan. Few American writers of the first rank are in such a condition of neglect by literary fashion, and no other American writer of the first rank is known to have joined the Communist Party. These facts are related, though not directly...