Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arithmetic with feverish enthusiasm. Starting with the last election returns-which gave Ike 442 electoral votes to Stevenson's 89-the Democrats looked hopefully at states where Ike's margin lay within 6% (see map), figured expansively that a shift in all these was possible and would harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states that went heavily for Ike in 1952 but now have active Democratic governors, e.g., Edmund Muskie...
...platform, a sea of humanity stretched away to the rim of the shallow natural basin, where the crowd had gathered. Here, on rolling land near Newton, Iowa, some 80,000 American farmers and townsmen, their wives, kids and relatives assembled last week for the granddaddy of all harvest fairs: the National Field Days, better known as the National Plowing Contest. Now they were giving their attention to their honorary chairman-President Dwight Eisenhower...
...Tito's return to cozy relations with Moscow. Khrushchev's arrival, dramatizing Tito's ties with the Soviet Union, could have been a deliberate attempt by the Russians to jeopardize these negotiations. Yugoslavs were not slow to point out that Khrushchev, with a bumper Soviet harvest reported this year, was in a position to cover the U.S. wheat offer, probably would like to impose this extra obligation on Tito...
...fields, stream beds, limestone pits and lake bottoms of Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...
...Pictures Speak." A comparison of Moscow's Van Goghs (MGM received transparencies of them too late to include them in the film) makes clear, as the story does not, that Van Gogh's epilepsy halted his painting, but does not explain it. The Grape Harvest, painted in the buffeting mistral outside Aries before Van Gogh's first attack, is faithful to the glowing description he wrote his brother of a "red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain...