Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After some months of mental thrashing, an idea, full-armed but of unfettered simplicity, sprang from Dorothy's head. Last week, she called Newsday, a Hempstead, L.I. tabloid,* and said she wanted to place an ad. She would marry any man who would support her and the children and give her $10,000 cash, right away. Newsday refused the ad, but ran the story. All at once, Dorothy was famous-well, talked about. Reporters came to interview her, and photographers to take her picture. She submitted with garrulous assurance, was photographed from many angles and in negligee...
Said ailing Dr. Weizmann: "We have reached the culmination of a great idea. It's a long road beset with many difficulties . . . With the blessings of God, we will succeed...
Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
Plowless Folly. Nor does Dr. Kellogg think much of "plowless farming," a fad promoted by Edward Faulkner's Plowman's Folly. Sometimes, Kellogg says, it is a good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...
...Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges suspected a new and outrageous boondoggle: Italy was trying to harness volcanoes at U.S. taxpayers' expense! After his volcanic outburst had subsided, and the facts became known, the idea did not seem quite so outrageous...