Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McDonald, Wallace...
Hennessy, Dean McDonald...
Soccer Coach Jim McDonald has scheduled a game for his local All-Star college team with the professional Boston Celtics for this Sunday. Besides Harvard, players from Tufts and M.I.T. will play for the collegiates...
...some 40 years Old McDonald preached hard work and hellfire every Sunday, with little visible effect on Oklahoma. Though he claimed to have built more churches "spiritually and physically" than any other man in the State, what he had to show for his pains was penury and insomnia. ("Your mother doesn't care," he would complain, "if I die for lack of sleep. There she lies night after night dead to the world while I am going crazy with sleeplessness...
...McDonald had really always wanted to go back to farming. At 62 he made up his mind to do it. He hated towns. "Jefferson was right when he said that cities were evil [population of Sallisaw: 1,500]." But the two things that made Old McDonald maddest were the way Oklahoma farmers refused to plant anything but cotton, and the way they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies...