Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Pioneering. Four miles northeast of Ike's new address (Route 10, Box 218 Gettysburg) is sleepy Gettysburg (pop. 7,046) and the little Presbyterian Church which Lincoln visited after he spoke. There Ike's presidential office, newly daubed a pale green, has been fashioned from a first-floor room at the post office, usually occupied by Town Postmaster Lawrence Oyler, who has moved into the mailroom. Ike's Sherman Adams and staff will work on the second floor, confining presidential business to the post office and respecting Ike's passion for privacy on the farm...
Being eyed favorably as a means of avoiding compliance with the Supreme Court rulings was the action that Leland, Miss. (pop. 4,736) had already taken, in anticipation of the desegregation order, by selling its city park to the local Lions Club for one dollar, thereby technically placing it under private ownership...
...Farmer's Daughter. Ann Woodward was born nearly 40 years ago on a farm four miles west of Pittsburg, Kans. (pop. 20,000) and named Angeline Luceil (later Lucille) Crowell. At some time in her rise to fame and fortune she shucked seven years from her age, along with most other details of her ordinary but respectable past...
...Eden Crowell Woodward, a farmer's daughter and onetime model from Pittsburg (pop. 20,000), Kans. enthusiastically shared her husband's interest in the turf and society. Several years ago, after watching Bill Woodward shoot a tiger and a leopard in India, she decided to take up big-game hunting herself. Last winter, in the jungles of Assam, she bagged two tigers (including one tenfooter, an unofficial record for women) and two leopards...
...Force has never believed that flying saucers are spaceships from other planets. But it was forced to take account of the public excitement created by reports of sightings in the daily press and in pop-eyed magazine articles and quickie books. It had, besides, the duty of accounting for everything seen or imagined in the U.S. air space. There was always a chance that some foreign nation had developed secret aircraft of startling performance. Even spaceships from foreign planets are not utterly impossible...