Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two months Senator Lyndon Johnson has galloped relentlessly and restlessly around his native Texas, officially campaigning only to retain his aisle seat in the Senate. But "Johnson for President" clubs have sprouted in his tracks like mushrooms in a meadow. This week Johnson, already proclaimed a candidate by Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, let his true love show, saddled up for a fast political shivaree in four nearby states. Quipped a Dallas wag: "He's just campaigning for re-election in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Arizona...
UNITED MINE WORKERS paid $438,000 in damages for violence in trying to organize Meadow Creek Coal Co. of Montgomery, Tenn. Action has spurred other mine operators to sue for $6,000,000 in damages, and additional suits totaling $7,000,000 are expected soon. To meet assault on its $21 million treasury, U.M.W. assessed its 190,000 members $20 each...
...Rensselaer, Charlie Halleck led a pleasantly Tarkingtonian life, hunting coons and skunks in the nearby Kankakee marsh, mowing neighbors' lawns for spending money, playing halfback on the high school football team and run sheep run in the meadow back of his home. In political fact. Halleck was running as soon as he learned to walk. He cannot remember when he first decided to spend his life in pursuit of high office. But his ambition was plain for all to see. Said Rensselaer High School's yearbook...
...there is no trouble before the cases come up, they will be dropped. City Attorney Frank S. Meadow, who requested the deferment, said that it was "in the best interest of all concerned.... that these cases should not and ought not to be prosecuted at this time...
...kidding whom? In your Jan. 26 Art section you quote a Detroit art dealer: ''The main bulk of buying is not Sheep Grazing in the Meadow any more, nor is the young woman of today buying art just to match the draperies." As a member of a cooperative formed by 75 local artists, I had a prospective "young woman" purchaser urge me to paint a picture that would complement the color of a lamp shade in her living room. She described the size it should be, showed me where it would hang, but was totally disinterested in subject...