Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tories' convention (their first since 1937 as the government in power), there was no unruly wrangling and almost no disagreement. Party Boss Lord Woolton had provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...
...Neither hen nor lion had much to crow about. A year of Conservative government had seen no sensational improvements. Britain was still plagued by shortages. Its defense program was drastically cut and far behind its goals. Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. ("Rab") Butler reported that Britain was now out of the red at last, thanks to a favorable trade balance of ?24 million ($67 million) for the first half of 1952, but his shining news was tarnished by an unexpectedly large internal budget deficit of ?293 million. Nevertheless it was Butler's honestly stated mixture of good...
...figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system, and to those who buy the "Chicago Tribune" he is a sinster Mother Hen nourishing a flock of "Red fellow-travelers" under the guise of academic freedom...
Layette. In St. Louis, doctors and nurses at St. Mary's Hospital took a professional interest in an intent hen pigeon nesting comfortably on two eggs on the maternity ward porch...
...best stories take a pathetic turn. In A Girl Called Peter, a farm girl discovers herself for the awkward thing she is. No More The Nightingales tells of the seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle...