Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support system was started during the Great Depression to keep farmers from going bankrupt. Yet in actual operation, it helps the poorest farmers least; the really hefty price-support payments go to the big operators. A notable recipient of price-support payments in recent years has been the Delta & Pine Land Co., a sprawling Mississippi firm largely owned by British interests; it's been getting more than a million dollars a year in price-support loans on cotton. Another irony is that, while supposedly helping to preserve old-fashioned rural virtues, price-support programs tend to make U.S. farmers...
Other Nieman follows: Bernard D. national affairs reporter, Washington Poet, history and philosophy: Patrick K. Owens, editorial page editor, Pine Bluff Commercial, history and government: and Shelby T. Scates, AP reporter, Oklahoma city, Far Eastern studies...
Died. Adolph Toepperwein, 92, longtime touring marksman for the Winchester firearms company, a Texas gunsmith's son who won the unofficial title of world's greatest sharpshooter in a 1907 shooting match during which he gunned out of the air all but nine of 72,500 pine cubes the size of alphabet blocks, only stopped then because he had exhausted all the .22-caliber ammunition In San Antonio; of heart disease; in San Antonio...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
From the golden sands of its Mediterranean shore to the olive groves and pine trees of its eastern hills, the most characteristic feature of Beirut's skyline is the apartment house. Row upon row of multistoried slabs stand in brightly colored ranks, graced by rooftop gardens, sunken black marble bathtubs with solid gold taps, and airy, glass-walled rooms that look out on full-sailed dhows plying the routes once used by Phoenician triremes. Only trouble is that thousands of the apartments are empty...