Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story was a colorful puff on Charlie Shuman, but that's about all. It is obvious that your reporters never got within a country mile of an honest-to-God farmer with manure and dirt on his boots. Farmers laugh aloud at the bickering efforts of farm organizations to solve problems. Most farmers belong to a farm organization only to participate in low-cost insurance programs or cooperatives, which are growing bigger all the time. The Farm Bureau itself is looking into the idea of buying a huge supermarket chain. Farm organizations are big business, as Shuman...
Sitting on the sun deck off his 34th floor office in Cleveland's Terminal Tower two weeks ago, the chief executive of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway gasped as an unexpected puff of wind caught the papers at his side and whisked them over the parapet. Walter J. Tuohy quickly enlisted a financial vice president and four aides, and all set out on a frantic search for the papers. For 21 hours, they scrambled over rooftops, peered out on lower ledges and tramped the rush-hour streets below. No luck...
...death of Nehru last year was only one of the shocks that have forced the world's largest democracy to face reality. Before that came the Red Chinese attack in October 1962, which discredited India's foreign policy and exposed Delhi as a military powder puff. Then last year the country was struck by its worst food crisis since independence, as riots erupted from Bangalore to Bombay. The shortages of grain called into question Nehru's economic policies, which stressed industry and paid little attention to the more basic problem of agriculture. And looming in the background...
...belong in a fashionably satiric exposition of meaninglessness, or a novel of foul disillusion of the kind written so joyously by college boys. Novelist Frame, a New Zealander who has written excellent novels (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water) in the past, is too fine a writer to puff up emptiness in such...
...hours after Stevenson's sudden death. Had George Reedy still been White House Press Secretary, such a query would have probably drawn a curt "No comment"-plus a suggestion, perhaps, that it was indelicate in its timing. But Bill Moyers, only a week in the job, took a puff on a slim cigar and answered evenly that the President had already talked over possible replacements with his staff and would not fill the post until after the funeral services for Stevenson...