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Word: hollanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admirers in the corps invariably refer to him as a "real, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman." The phrase is trite but true-it is easy to visualize him in the grey of the Confederacy. With his quiet, tidewater accent, he has little of the flamboyancy of such barnacled Marines as Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, and Graves ("The Big E") Erskine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Sunday Punch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Farmers switched in Iowa too. Ike was leading in heavily pro-labor Wapello County, in Holland-Dutch Sioux County, and in heavily Catholic Dubuque County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...addition to Texan Daniel, five Democrats claimed their sure seats: the five: Mississippi's John. C., Stennis, Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Rhode Island's John O. Pastore, all incumbents, and Representative Albert Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Make-Up of the 83rd | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Since mid-September, Elmer has done his act over & over for the benefit of farmers in Italy, France and Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Elmer | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Donkey in the Lobby. The French took to the idea from the very beginning. Last week, when Elmer left to go on to Holland, the French farmers insisted he come back once more and teach them to teach still others before he left for good. Elmer promptly accepted the invitation. For one thing, it will give him a chance to buy one of those cannon scarecrows. An uninhibited man who startled the Democratic conventioneers in Chicago last July by leading a live donkey into the lobby of the Palmer House, Elmer badly wants a cannon scarecrow to take home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Elmer | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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