Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major aims of the professorial business is the preservation of the scholarly race, few young men became critics of American letters. Clearly, young men saw little advantage in tilling with their hands, when across the fence in the field of Englishliterature, large and aggressive machines were making hay...
...Smith took no chances on being forced by a committee petition to call hearings. As a dozen major bills -relief for depressed areas, housing, mineral subsidies, etc. -piled up before Rules, Howard Smith simply disappeared from Washington. He returned a week later, smilingly explained that he had had some hay down on his farm that needed tending. Says he today: "There were about a dozen things thrown at the Rules Committee, and they would have cost the taxpayers about $10 billion. There was no way on God's earth to prevent them from coming out if the committee met. That...
...railroad bed, gnawed a soft. hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...
...fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general secretary of the Zambia Congress of Northern Rhodesia shouted...
...hay? Where are the free folk of England...