Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise." He is a bug on prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic...
When President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson asked for authorization to peg farm subsidies as low as 60% of parity, the Democratic Congress rammed through a 75% parity freeze-which Ike brusquely vetoed. Then 1958's farm prosperity (TIME, May 12) began splitting the congressional farm bloc: the House refused even to consider a wild, catchall Democratic farm bill, and the Senate passed a strong bill which would 1) significantly lower price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep...
...Cuban mountains where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers and into the U.S. naval base eight miles away, Mallin picked...
...couple of days of good Will, and the training sergeant (Myron McCormick), a man prepared for almost anything but affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain...
...your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down a peg...