Word: haying
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Nothing goes right. The collective farm manager is cooking the books and concealing a pair of White officers dying of boredom. The Cossacks frustrate Davidov's best efforts with peasant slyness, cheerful inefficiency and occasional open rebellion. When he does get a field mowed, the hay is promptly stolen by farmers from a neighboring collective run by a fat and crafty Ukrainian. And, for once in a Soviet novel, a girl proves more lovable than a tractor: lush, hot-eyed Lukeria soon shows Davidov that there are better uses for a meadow than grazing cattle...
...Among the other guests: Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, Assistant Labor Secretary George Lodge (son of G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge), and their wives...
...Eisenhower closet, no cataclysmic secret-intelligence reports. But he had discovered that even a well-informed, alert Senator and President-elect has no conception of the responsibilities of the U.S. presidency. Shortly after April 12. 1945. Harry Truman said that he felt as if a load of hay had fallen on him. Kennedy was showing something of the same load, but being Kennedy, he came out fighting. He had also discovered, like many a predecessor, that he was bound in his high ambitions by the same realities that had bound the previous Administration-including the realities of Congress...
...offer as many remedies as his diagnosis seemed to call for, the financial community apparently liked the prescription. His proposals, the Wall Street Journal said approvingly, are "rather modest." "The salient impression made by President Kennedy's economic message to Congress is its orthodoxy," said John Hay Whitney's New York Herald Tribune. "It confirms once again the notion that his financial instincts are cautious and conservative rather than experimental or revolutionary...
...program is comparable to the Nieman Fellowships for journalists and the John Hay Fellowships for teachers, which allow professional men and women a year of free-lance study at the University. It gives a similar opportunity to lawyers, whose work, however, prohibits their taking a full year off. Moreover, the session, unlike the Nieman and Hay projects, offers a definite schedule of courses from which the returning lawyers are recommended to take...