Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have rubber masks which look exactly like him. They are going to travel the state, walking down main streets bumping into people hard and indignantly asking them who they think they are, bumping into a United States Senator." McCarthy laughs: "I'll bet he still isn't sure whether I was ribbing him." Joe beat Young Bob by a slim 5,000 votes...
...asked how long a nearby rubbish dump was going to be permitted to burn. The city manager, who lost his sense of smell apparently as the result of a sinus infection ten years ago, did not realize that the stink penetrated even into the auditorium. When he said: "It isn't burning-the city is operating a wet dump," new hoots of laughter arose. He looked startled again, jotted down a changed opinion of how the dump smelled...
...even know what I'm teaching--history, law, literature all enter into it." Chafee has lately been using Social Sciences 120 as a proving ground for his theories; what he likes about the course is "the willingness on the part of the students to engage in discussion. It isn't very common to have it in a hundred-member undergraduate class...
...really hopeful thing is that Turkey isn't standing still, or slipping backward. It's advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant...
...that the Kitsch exhibit almost exactly reproduced their rooms at home. Sighed one onlooker: "It's so gezellig [cozy]." Snapped Director Wijsenbeek: "It's not gezellig. It's stuffy." The art critic of The Hague's Het Vaterland hedged: "The line between Kunst and Kitsch isn't always easy to draw...