Word: porches
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...power in a steady flow with no peaks to worry about. TVA customers are so grateful for what TVA refers to as its "Henry Ford system" (i.e., lots of electricity at low prices) that they make freer use of their irons, TV sets, frying pans, porch lights and furnaces (nearly half the 650,000 electrically heated homes in the U.S. are in TVA territory). While the average U.S. family used 3,707 kwh. of power last year at a cost of 2.48? per kw-h., TVA's customers used 8,806 kwh. at an average cost of just under...
...doesn't he go back to Hyannisport and do the rest from his front porch?" asked a weary reporter. Instead, Kennedy stepped up the tempo, exhorted his fagged aides to renewed action. "This is no Dewey operation," he said to them in a husky voice. "We're not going to take any time off from now on. Nixon could still win this campaign...
...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
...with an extended campaign, the best man is not always selected (Clay, Webster and Greeley were all defeated by lesser statesmen). Nor is a razzle-dazzle road show a prerequisite to victory on Election Day: William McKinley, in 1896, and Warren G. Harding, in 1920, won easily with "front-porch" campaigns, letting the groups of voters and the politicians come to them. And Franklin Roosevelt used the pressures of wartime as a reason for limiting his campaign appearances outside Washington to a bare minimum...
Compared with The Plantation (TIME, March 2, 1953), Author Pierce's impressive first novel, On a Lonesome Porch suffers from literary jerry-building. What saves it is its subtle, flexible prose, which can gallop in tense, comma-strewn sentences when Northern cavalry slashes through the Carolinas, or laze through a hot summer afternoon with three plaintive, motherless Negro children. And when Pierce softly traces Miss Ellen's genteel footsteps, he enlivens in a rare, vivid way the mind of the Old South...