Word: polk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...
Last week Des Moines' biggest supplier, MacMillan Oil Co., shut off deliveries to more than 50 major customers, including businesses, colleges and apartment houses, all of which will have to find new fuel sources or go cold. Wolf's Department Store, the Polk County Jaii and St. John's Catholic Church and grade school are all running low; Father John Dorton worries that "you can't have kids in class freezing." For want of fuel, some firms like AMF Western Tool Division (which turns out lawnmowers and such winter products as snowplows) and Can Tex (which...
...hitting to right field and capacity for handling the double-play were certain to be assets for the new defense-minded Bosox. And a magnificant asset he was, the key to the starcrossed pennant drive which took millions of hard-core Sox fans down to the replay of the Polk Country series, only this time for all the marbles. He had survived not only the broken leg, but a broken finger and an 0 for 47 batting slump last year, and as he took the field in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, the opportunity was there for the magnificent finale...
...moves more slowly and cautiously. From Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase to Johnson's dispatch of troops to Viet Nam, with rare exceptions the President has taken the lead in foreign and military policy while Congress has tagged along often grumbling. When an earlier activist President, James K. Polk sent troops into Mexico and then demanded that Congress approve his action, Senator John C. Calhoun declared that the deed "stripped Congress of the power of making war, and what was more and worse, it gave that power to every officer nay, to every subaltern commanding a corporal s guard...
With perceptions heightened by drugs, said Parsons, a man might "reach a greater understanding of early China by investigating the fondness that the ancient Chinese had for the particularly exotic dish of bear paws." Or a researcher who wanted to understand President James K. Polk, suggested the professor, could hole up for two years in an ante-bellum Tennessee mansion, read the books Polk would have read, ride horseback through the countryside and trip out occasionally on drugs-all in order to put himself inside Folk's psyche. Parsons' point is that historians too often neglect what...