Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...Great Plains, to the great old houses, the sharecroppers' shacks and black soil of the Mississippi Delta, to Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the foaming rivers and screaming headsaws of the Pacific Northwest. Last week, north, south, east and west, the U.S. was a fat and prosperous land...
...land and sea forces that are capable of protecting us in this new atomic...
James Strom Thurmond, a Southern politician little known and therefore possibly underrated in the North, made a sortie last week into political no-man's land. Appearing in Baltimore, in the border state of Maryland, he was met by a college student dressed in the full regalia of a Confederate brigadier and a mildly interested audience. Standing just over on his side of the Mason-Dixon line, the governor of South Carolina sounded his defiance...
...Harvard is now worth the price of admission. And I suspect that we have another Frank Leahy arising in the land of the pork and the bean...