Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Japanese medals for bravery), earned an enduring place in the affections of Army men by bringing in winning Football Coach Earl Blaik during a prewar tour as Superintendent of West Point, and won equal, if somewhat more ironic, affection as a postwar Japanese occupation commander, where his friendly, homespun ways symbolized U.S. democracy and fairness...
...weapons that make Nikita Khrushchev such a formidable enemy is his extraordinary ability to mix threats of nuclear destruction with homespun homilies straight from the cracker barrel, all delivered with the jaunty air of a man who feels he has got the world on a string and enjoys yo-yoing it around. Last week, in a 4½-hour interview in his Kremlin office with New York Timesman Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Khrushchev was on top of the barrel...
Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: Jane Wyatt and Billy Gray, who play mother and son in TV's Father Knows Best, repeat the relationship in Terence Rattigan's considerably less homespun O Mistress Mine...
...museum, the visitor leaves Olde England behind and steps into the Newe. From Wrentham, Mass., the museum brought a 17th century "keeping room," with furniture owned by Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower. Beyond that room is an 18th century staircase with its handy "valuables bag"-a homespun linen sack into which valuables could be thrown and, in case of fire, hurled out the window. Next come two connecting rooms from a house in Lee, N.H.-a kitchen-living room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge...
...tradition of homespun philosophers (Mumford proudly possesses no university degrees), his esthetic judgments are liberally laced with moralizing. Though Manhattan-raised, Mumford has a gardener's love of greenery, likes to weed in the vegetable patch between paragraphs. And the less a city becomes like a village, the more it rouses Mumford's wrath. In a prescient 1922 essay, The City, he warned: "The movies, the White Ways and the Coney Islands, which almost every American city boasts in some form or other, are means of giving jaded and throttled people the sensations of living without the direct...