Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chuck Connors (6 ft. 5½ in., 215 lbs., 45-34½-41), the big news on a fast-coming "family western" called The Rifleman, is a smiling Irish plow chaser who carries the biggest weapon seen so far on the small screen: a full-length .44-.40 1892 Winchester carbine, which he twirls like a pistol. Fortunately, the man is so shad-bellied tall that he can spin the barrel under his arm without scraping his armpit. Raised in Brooklyn, Chuck spent six years in minor-league ball, wound up with the Los Angeles Angels in 1952 (batted...
...conviction that the men who were having those long drinks under the lilac bushes saved the country from disaster. In discussing the New Deal's opponents, Schlesinger stresses their rages and follies. Generally. F.D.R.'s adversaries are made to seem like those stubborn mules who refused to plow the cottonfields under; there is no suggestion that in the long view of history the mules may possibly have had a point...
...Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will help them win back respect from the island people who ostracized them...
...help them, he used his G.I. Bill to earn a degree in agriculture, took missionary studies at two seminaries, orientation courses at the Carville, La. leprosarium. From Lutheran groups in Missouri he got an appointment to Culion, sailed for the Philippines with a jeep, a garden tractor and a plow...
...state? An example is Pemex, Mexico's government oil company. Subsidized Pemex proudly proclaims itself "in the service of the nation," fulfills the proclamation by keeping prices of its products artificially low and supporting a welter of government social services. As a result, it makes little profit to plow back into development and into the establishment of a much-needed petrochemical industry...