Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with top marks. Posted to London in 1935, and then reassigned to the U.S. as minister counselor and ambassador, Pearson quickly built up the best Washington contacts in the whole foreign diplomatic corps. A close set of intimates gathered nights around the Pearson piano, talking shop, singing and sipping rye. "We envied his ability to keep a foot in our embassy as well as in the State Department," recalls a British contemporary. "We naturally told him all, and so did the Americans...
Also, Paul L. Hoch, of Leverett and Charlottesville, Va., chemistry and physics; Duncan M. Kennedy, of Quincy and Cambridge, economics; Michael E. Lesk, of Winthrop and New York City, chemistry and physics; Elliot S. Miller, of Lowell and Rye, N.Y., English; and Peter A. Tscherning, of Winthrop and Washington, D.C., classics...
...during the Great Depression, the support-control system is much the same as it was in the New Deal days, only bigger and more complicated. In its current operations, the Agriculture Department uses a device called "crop loans" to support prices of wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, peanuts, corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop...
...answer to the BAG statements, Anthony Corvino, personnel manager of the Dorchester plant, said, "It's all false." Corvino refused to elaborate until a statement is issued by Continental head-quarters in Rye...
Many of us who read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed...