Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hiring a private plane and an electric organ, Mike crosshatched the state, 'hammering at Elmer. In little towns, he would leave his car overtime by a parking meter, then identify himself and pay the fine ("Always good for a box on Page One," explained Mike). He used the "Brannan Plan" as an epithet, never let farmers forget that Thomas had sponsored it. He reminded Oklahoma's 100,000 rural voters, who get electricity from REA lines, that Thomas has opposed federal-built dams to provide cheap power. Thomas, he declared, is a "messenger" for private utilities...
...Izvestia, the Communist house organ which has often belabored him for "groveling before the West," Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich obligingly picked his own "rogue's gallery of warmongers": Novelists John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck and oldtime Socialist
...Rome last week, Holy Year pilgrims visiting St. Peter's were startled to hear organ music grumbling up through gratings in the marble floor. One awed pilgrim exclaimed: "It comes right from the tomb of St. Peter...
...pilgrim's guess was close: the music came from the upper grottoes of the Vatican, just above the site where Roman Catholic historians believe St. Peter was buried. It issued from a brand new Wurlitzer electronic organ-the first to be installed in St. Peter...
...been the persuader. Two years ago he presented the Pope with a Wurlitzer for his Cappella Matilda, one of the small chapels in the pontifical apartments. When the Pope seemed pleased with it, the Congregation of Rites voted to "tolerate" one in St. Peter's. After the new organ's debut, most of the Congregation seemed tolerably pleased...