Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted Eisenhower's offer of full official assistance for the forthcoming Stevenson world trip by getting a morning's briefing at the State Department. Then, in a two-hour meeting, the man who won the presidency and the man who lost it sat down to lunch (guinea hen, wild rice), swapped reminiscences of the campaign, chatted as warmly as old friends. Stevenson was impressed by the hospitality: he was beginning to like Washington, "perhaps too much," he confessed...
...grandstanding from the bench. He asked: "If something like spending the rest of your life in Russia could be worked out as a substitute for prison, would that interest you at all?" The Communists fervently refused-not without some grandstanding of their own. Cried Big Red Hen Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: the suggestion was "comparable to asking a Christian if he wanted to go to heaven right away . . . We feel we would be traitors to the American people if we turned our backs on them . . ." The judge accommodated all with sentences ranging from a year and a day to three years...
Sporting a five-game winning streak and an exam-period lay-off, the sextet taken on Belmont Hill today, on outdoor ice for the firs time. Tomorrow night the team will play regulation 20-minute periods in its return engagement with Boston College at the Lynn Sports Arena hen with only one day's rest meets a tough Brown outfit on Providence ice Saturday night...
...point of personal conviction that defense spending should be cut if necessary, to balance the budget). But Humphrey knows that Harry Truman's $78.6 billion budget, with its $9.9 billion deficit, is another factor which makes quick economic change impossible. "You can't set a hen in the morning," he says "and have chicken salad for lunch...
...country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...