Word: rustic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coaches to go out in launches. Instead it is the inflexible custom at Henley for each to follow his crew on a bicycle along the Tow Path which parallels the river. Part of this path is paved, but along much of its length grazing cattle preserve its rustic integrity...
...Bearing crosses and banners, whole families walked together, singing and praying. The young helped the old across improvised bridges and through the sharp stubble of newly sickled wheat. At twelve resting places along the way, prayers were recited in makeshift chapels. That evening Locronan doors stayed open, and big rustic tables were laden with crêpes, bread, butter and cider. Last week the rituals ended with midnight Mass and a pageant re-enacting the life of St. Ronan...
...western, tobacco-growing Pinar del Rio, the secretary of the Association of Rustic Estate Owners said that he had gone to a radio station to make an anti-reform broadcast, but had been stopped by a crowd of 60 men wielding clubs. A decree announced last week established the death penalty for counter-revolutionary activity, including armed plots, invasions, sabotage or dropping leaflets...
...comedy went on, in Pennsylvania's swank-rustic Bucks County Playhouse last week, "T. C." handled hip and handbag so well that the audience rapidly forgot his real sex. "Jones is so good that we completely forgot he was a man," said one actor after the show. "When he leaned over after one rehearsal and kissed his wife, we were all shocked." Mrs. Connie Dickson Jones herself is long past such shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion...
...Cattlemen's Association had criticized the reform as "confiscatory," planned a $500,000 advertising campaign against it. Castro called the cattlemen "counterrevolutionary," a capital offense in Castro's Cuba. His soldiers picked up and jailed Félix Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea land reform...