Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting so he can't tell a real honest-to-goodness explosion from a fella trying to have a little good clean fun. Why, if all the blasts heard around here were the real McCoy, Cambridge would be as bare today as a Kansas wheatfield after a record harvest...
...people in the Harvard stands didn't go to sleep, though. They screamed and yelled and hollered as Valpey's harvest hands mowed down the Bruins. When Paul Shafer began cutting his way through the middle of the line, one Crimson enthusiast cut loose with a Diesel horn for accompaniment. The Brown linemen must have found the sound chillingly appropriate as they encountered the head, knees, elbows, and hips of Mr. Shafer...
...enough to drive a farmer to drink. North of the Rio Grande, bumper cotton and sugar-beet crops were ready for harvest, and U.S. farmers were faced with the nightmare of losing it all for want of extra farm hands. Meanwhile, jammed into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, just below the river, nearly 8,000 Mexican workers waited to be registered as seasonal braceros and to go on north to the harvest. But nothing was being done to send them north; they were stranded...
There was a new confidence in the U.S., born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...whole idea of the picture seems to be that it will wow the fans to see Miss Garson in tights, floundering in the mud, playing at comedy. But it is no news that Greer Garson has good legs (vide Random Harvest), or that she is a skillful comedienne (vide Valley of Decision); nor is it particularly funny to see dignity, whether real or superimposed, mucked...