Word: hay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encounter with poison ivy or of his own desperate search for the family cat during a blizzard; he tells how to talk on the party line without revealing secrets to eavesdroppers, devotes a whole page of sensitive text and pictures to the juvenile joy of playing in a hay-filled barn. Bowman prefers to think of himself as "a sort of would-be farmer with typewriter...
...whose name had special magic in New York ?Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He was the only Republican winner on the state ticket. When Javits sought the senatorial nomination in 1956, the party's conservatives did their best to block him. He finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum: if the party rejected Javits, it could cross Whitney's gilt-edged name off its contributors' list. That time Javits had to run against another Democrat with a famous political name in New York, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and again...
...records are selling better than ever. For Arnold, that's saying something: with sales of 46 million records, he is one of the top ten bestselling recording performers of all time. And, as they still say down in Nashville ("Music City, U.S.A."), that ain't hay...
Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...
...companies millions of dollars a year just for printing and distributing revised timetables. But the obvious answer, nationwide D.S.T., has long been opposed by farmers who argue that "fast time," as they call it, wrecks their harvests since they cannot begin work until the dew is off the hay. Furthermore, they complain, it is one thing to tell a man to get up an hour earlier, quite another thing to tell...