Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney was chatting not long ago to a roomful of influential Britons and Americans about some airy new suggestions for U.S. foreign policy. Said he: "There is even the proposal to send Mr. Dulles behind the Iron Curtain." From somewhere out of the back of the room a senior civil servant muttered something that sounded like "and keep him there." "Jock" Whitney broke into a grin and said chidingly, "Now, now." The whole room shook with laughter...
...Texas dust bowl, Roberts sold his runty cattle, his house and farm equipment, bought a 1929 Chevy on credit, and with $75 in his jeans, started out for California. In Yuma, Ariz, he joined other stranded Okies who had run out of cash, cadged a job pitching hay at $2.70 a day. In return for milking his landlord's cows every morning, Roberts got a rent-free two-room shack for eight months...
...Cure. Near O'ney, Ill., irritated by wasps that buzzed around the barn, Farm Hand Harold Weber decided to smoke them out, burned more than 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, 200 loads of manure, a utility shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline and the barn...
...wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls the technique "Woman-as-an-Instrument"), Carol fogs out three minutes of lowdown vowels, then wraps it up with wacky sexiness in a single phrase of explicit English: "Saved it all for you." Titles on the reverse side-Lying in the Hay, Keep on Doin' What You're Doin'-leave little doubt as to what it is all about...
...Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...