Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only as a Southern aristocrat. Few of the breed survived politically the triple ordeals of Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction revolt of the South's small farmers and small townsmen-those variously described as the wool-hats, the plain people, the Snopeses; the hillbillies or the pine hill men. Unlike them, Maybank trusted government because he was born to it. Unlike them, he distrusted big government because he wanted nothing from it for himself or his group-other than participation in responsibility and power...
...week Ike left Denver for some fly-fishing in the north branch of the South Platte river near Pine, Colo. As he fished, 50 men, women and children gathered on a highway near the stream to watch him. The onlookers offered advice and encouragement, and Ike goodnaturedly bantered with them. On his first strike he lost both fish and fly. When the President brought a trout to net, an onlooker called: "Yeah, Ike." The stream, specially stocked with 500 Ibs. of trout by Ike's host, Bal Swan, provided fast action for the rest of the day. White House...
Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...
SOUTHERN NEWSPRINT production will be stepped up by the opening of one of the South's biggest newsprint mills. From fast-growing southern pine, Britain's Bowaters Southern Paper Corp.'s new, $60 million plant at Calhoun, Tenn. will turn out 130,000 tons of newsprint and 55,000 tons of kraft pulp a year. More than 100 Southern publishers have signed up to buy the mill's entire output for the next 15 years...
...never be able to take away my spirit of optimism, because I will always be a ray of sunshine, a creator of gladness and master of myself. I have been a successful champion wrestler because I'm brave as a lion, strong as a mule, tough as a pine knot and sharp as a razor." He added: "I have the gift...