Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene is repeated, somewhat more quietly, in proud, sober Ghent and in Bruges, lulled by its gentle chimes, in bustling, muscular Antwerp, in Liège under its pall of soot from the mines and the blast furnaces. Belgium has quietly achieved an almost incredible state: postwar prosperity. What is more, Belgium has largely done it by free enterprise. Or "planned freedom," as Belgians call...
Land to the Tillers. But not leathery General Li Tsung-jen, the dark horse from Kwangsi. He broke boldly with the Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank...
...Li'l Abner" is the number one Freshman choice, with "Terry and the Pirates" second, far behind Al Capp's Dogpatch hero. In 1935, a similar survey put "Popeye" and "Barnoy Geogle" on top, but neither carned a vote this year. "Dick Tracy" and "Prince Valiant" tied for third...
Freshman taste was lauded by Jeromo C. Bruner, lecturer on Social Psychology, who complimented them on their favorite choice. "That Li'l Abner is first," he said, "shows discrimination on the part of the students, since the strip is on a relatively high intellectual level...
...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...