Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...
...booths, the University of Arkansas last week added a saner fad: "hunkerin." It means squatting on the balls of the feet for a long time (hunkers is Scottish for haunches). The fad grew out of a chair shortage in a fraternity house at Arkansas, whose students had watched their Ozark daddies squatting and whittling at crossroads stores. Hunkerers always hunker together, and girl hunkerers are perfectly eligible. Sophisticates hunker flatfooted. Real progressives hunker with elbows inside the knees, though this is difficult while "hunkerin' and hookin' " (squatting and drinking beer). Hunkerin' is not likely to be confined...
Even without the big airliners, Lear has been doing well enough. Piedmont Airlines, a feeder line, has installed Lear instrument-landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last...
...Ozark, Ark., when a lawyer cross-examined a witness with "I hear you drink sometimes," the witness said: "You heard wrong. I drink all the time...
...19th century's bootless battle between science and religion is all but forgotten -but not in Missouri's Ozark Mountains. Last week the state legislature was asked to ban the teaching of evolution as "a fact" in Missouri high schools and colleges.* The bill's author, Representative Ealum Bruffett, an Ozarks country schoolteacher for 16 years, told oratorically of spying out the enemy: "I have been watching this creeping evolution in our textbooks for years. My own daughter has been exposed to this and has not complained. That is what scares me. This would be the greatest...