Word: haying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon and hopes it doesn't rain," explained the general...
Since raising chinchillas is almost as easy as keeping canaries, the fad caught on fast in Southern California. The animals can be fed for $3 a year (mostly on hay and vitamin-enforced pellets), and females will bear three to 15 young a year...
Coup. Near Matamoros, Mexico, customs inspectors found contraband needles in a truckload of hay...
...Russia's vows," said U.S. Secretary of State John Hay back in 1900, "are false as dicers' oaths when treachery is profitable." Though many now recognize this fact, it rarely gets formal acknowledgement by U.N. A dedicated little man, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, Nationalist China's U.S.-educated delegate to U.N., has been working for almost three years to get it on the record. Last week, at the General Assembly in Paris, he made his final...
...peddling, and his successor was hardly in office before clouds gathered over him too. The public worked up quite a head of indignant steam over scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which was taking more of its money than ever before. This indignation fell like a load of hay on Harry Truman. Perhaps it would be the understatement of the year to say that 1951 was not Truman's year...