Word: grocers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...malicious twist in the spin because-despite Knowland's warm words for the record-Dick Nixon and Bill Knowland have long been rivals, and there is a serious conflict between them. The two Californians raced to the pinnacles by quite different routes. Nixon is the son of a grocer in Whittier, in Southern California. A young lawyer-war veteran, he had little political background when a friend submitted his name to a citizens' committee which was seeking a candidate for Congress in California's Twelfth District in 1946. Knowland, son of a wealthy and powerful publisher-politician...
Distant Aim. This week both Nixon and Knowland were planning trips through the Far East. Departing early in October, the grocer's son will go as the representative of the President, surrounded by protocol, ceremony, official conferences and social events. Departing late in August, the wealthy publisher-politician's "son will go on his own, at his own expense, without much benefit of protocol or pomp...
...writer," Arnold Bennett once confessed, "just as I might be ... a grocer, or an earthenware manufacturer." Bennett set himself the task of 1,000 words a day, and through most of his 40 productive years, managed to maintain that rate. In 1907 he announced he would write a major novel of 200,000 words, on Aug. 30, 1908 noted: "Finished The Old Wives' Tale at 11:30 a.m. today. 200,000 words." The last entry in his journal, in the last full calendar year of his life, ends: "Total of words for the year...
...clear off the farm and into jobs in town. While barely making a living themselves, the marginal farmers add to crop surpluses, help drive prices down and Government costs up, and thus freeload on the U.S. Those who cannot make good, in short, should get out-just as any grocer or garage owner may be forced out of business for inefficiency. In this gigantic educational program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture should be a teacher, but not a commissar...
...sports cars," a Butler aide said last month in Washington, "and we stop buying breakfasts." But after years of austere pessimism Britons had devised their own modest standards of what constitutes "recovery." When egg rationing was abolished last week, no music was sweeter to British housewives than a London grocer's complaint: "Eggs, don't talk to me about eggs. They're a drug on the market...