Word: rusticate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nabors Hour (CBS). Nabors, who, as Corner Pyle, USMC, had the second-highest-rated show last season, is venturing into variety. Those who can stand Jim will discover that he has a big baritone voice in addition to the familiar grits-eating grin and the stage-rustic accent. For those who can't, the Jim Nabors Hour will be only as entertaining as its guests...
When the alltime, all-star baseball team was recently chosen to mark the game's 100th anniversary, the man named history's foremost manager was John Joseph McGraw. His selection was virtually incontestable. More than any other man McGraw transformed baseball from a rustic game of stark individual power into a scrambling contest of split-second team prowess...
With his mouth stretched like a rubber band, Williamson seems to be chewing through the sense of the lines as if for the first time. One notices with surprise that Hamlet's vocabulary is flecked with coarse, rustic phrases like manure on his boots; he talks of "fardels" and "the compost on the weeds" and "the slave's offal" to offset his university scholar's jargon...
...Kinasewich happened to be attending the NCAA Tourney in Ithaca two years ago and heard of Bruce. Learning from a friend that Durno was not quite satisfied with Cornell, he suggested that Durno send for an application. Bruce did and found the streets of Cambridge more appealing than the rustic pleasures of Cornell's fraternities and agricultural school...
...large selection of hand-carved woodenware, CUTTING BOARDS of all sizes and shapes, SALAD BOWLS, and thousands of other rustic items. SHEEP-SKIN RUGS from $15 to $150. We stock a full line of Persian hand-embroidered coats (as illustrated) along with hundreds of antique fur coats from $10 up. The coffee...