Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Park, Alexander Fell Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
...last week, after 25 years of experiment, the Dominion Experimental Farm had gone far toward establishing the fact that Canadian cattle could be successfully buffaloed. Browsing in a special enclosure in the Wainwright Buffalo Park were 75 precious, sturdy calves born this spring. They were true cattalo, not hybrids but a distinctive breed. The experts were finally sure that they had taken the cattalo out of the mule's biological dead...
Farncis E. Park...
...from Korea to see how things were going on Cheju. Its white mountain and green valleys were as beautiful as reported, he cabled, and three grassy, fenced-off holes in the ground-whence Ko, Yang and Pu supposedly had come-were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind, too much rock, too much woman"-still applied, though...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum Park Commissioner, seized the occasion of the National Institute of Social Sciences' annual dinner to reel off impacted phrases until the gunpowder ran out the heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators...