Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resignations of two other faculty members were also disclosed, Edward P. Herring has resigned as associate professor of Government to devote his full time to work with the Carnegie Corporation, and Clauda M. Simpson, Jr. has resigned as assistant professor of English in order to become professor of English at Ohio State University
...Life. Peggy's year-round citizens make their living from the sea, fishing for lobsters, herring, mackerel, salmon. Each fisherman owns his own home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait...
...colors--the Democrat left. Within this heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring in the American press. This swift change of opinion, coupled with Truman's domestic difficulties has-put organizations of the left wing on the defensive. If the Democratic Party is to recover, if it is to galvanize its forces under one program, it remains for these elements to find some...
Search for Herring. None of Britain's returning daughters had been able to adjust herself to life in Canada. It was also apparent that a few had not tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
Canadian table manners bothered her too: "I've never seen our slum children eating the way theirs do-stuffing food in their mouths with their fingers. Yet when I ate with my knife they criticized me." Furthermore, her Canadian relations never had herring for Sunday breakfast. Furthermore, Canadian girls "don't have complexions like our girls and they put too much rubbish on their faces...