Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds hung low and heavy over the barnlike white (and for whites only) schoolhouse at Barnes, in Mississippi's rural Leake County. To the Barnes school-house one recent, showery, steaming day came four lawyers and an editor, all candidates for the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket (the only one that counts) in next week's primary. In their speeches the five candidates all went straight to the point. This was no great accomplishment, since in Mississippi, in 1955, there is only one real political point: school segregation...
Even in the paddock, the mousy little man in the gold and white silks seemed out of place. He flicked his whip in the dust and scuffled his boots like an embarrassed kid. Beyond him New York's Saratoga Raceway came alive with rural vigor; floodlights brightened over the hayseed atmosphere of a country carnival. Grandstand and clubhouse bulged with bettors, lines lengthened at pari-mutuel windows, tip-sheet hustlers hawked their wares. Joseph Cyril O'Brien, 38, looked just a little overawed by all the excitement...
...Their background was strikingly typical of the 21. In her book 21 Stayed, Reporter Virginia Pasley reveals that 18 grew up in poverty, 16 came from small towns or rural communities, 17 did not finish high school, 20 were Regular Army volunteers, 16 had an average IQ or less, 15 were 21 or younger when captured, 11 lost their fathers when very young...
...Sierra Nevada League he will never forget. Verdi's starting pitcher walked the first three men up. "Then they took him out for wildness and put me in," Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in those days was a sidearm fast ball, thrown with a kind of rural free delivery-sometimes the ball went all over the countryside. His first pitch caught the batter in the back, forcing in a run. His second hit the next batter, and forced in another run. "Hey Rube," enraged Fallon fans screamed...
...banking and insurance should either 1) shut up shop or 2) operate on a self-supporting basis, and Postal Savings was cited as one activity the Government should give up entirely. The commission urged that Government loans be made at realistic rates and made its case by citation. Item: Rural Electrification Administration loans are made at 2% interest, and are covered by Treasury money borrowed at 3%. In its most controversial report, the commission strongly urged that the U.S. Government keep out of the power business wherever private concerns are willing to take over...