Word: plowboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring. Regarded as a curiosity at first, the Pottawatomie Plowboy gradually overcame most of his awkwardness and, by virtue of a lethal right uppercut, four years later won the chance to meet Johnson...
Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...
...Cracky Nonsense. Though Arnold has been peddling down-home songs for more than 20 years, this was his first appearance in Manhattan-and it marked a new era for country music. A few years ago, any country crooner billing himself as "The Tennessee Plowboy" would have been run out of most Northern cities. But now, in an age of shifting population, country music has penetrated the metropolis in a big way, and no one has helped the cause or stands to profit more than Arnold. His recent appearances in Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Chicago have drawn big crowds...
...total assault on TV." He conquered. He has been all over the channels from Studio One to the Kraft Theater. With some movie work as well, he eventually had enough excess cash to take time off in 1957 to write Who'll Save the Plowboy? for off-Broadway production, an award-winning somber tale of a life saved in combat only to rot in peace...
...quiet patience to hear a heart beat or skip a beat. It takes the gentlest of touches to put a compassionate finger on the place where people love and hurt one another, the spot where the human skin is less than skin-deep. As Who'll Save the Plowboy? suggested in 1962, and as The Subject Was Roses further confirms, Frank D. Gilroy is the sort of playwright who possesses these qualities...