Word: scarecrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...
Agathe realizes she is being used, but she has a design of her own-to snare Gilles's brooding young friend Nicolas. And Nicolas, because he worships Gilles, pretends affection for scarecrow Agathe, thus leaving the lovers to each other...
...Memorial Hall was a two-page mimeographed questionnaire. Under the heading, "Please check the two arguments against Universal Military Service that you consider most telling," it listed nine arguments thought up by the "National Council Against Conscription." For a lesson in applying the twin arts of irrelevant argument and scarecrow massacre, no one need look further...
...weeks. He made his first break-from a marching column of P.W.s-by taking a lightning header into a ditch of muddy water. The guards never saw him go. He exchanged his R.A.F. uniform for "the most beautiful coat he'd ever seen" (he borrowed it from a scarecrow) and headed for the British lines...
...friends and acquaintances, shy, scarecrow-thin John Peet was not easy to ken. At 34, he had gone through an odd succession of careers: enlisted man in Britain's crack Brigade of Guards, English teacher in Prague, private in the Spanish Civil War's International Brigade, policeman in Palestine, chief Berlin correspondent for Reuters news agency. Some people considered John Peet insecure, haunted and unhappy; others regarded him as witty, well-informed and likable. Allied officials in Berlin had privately marked him down as a Communist or at least a fellow traveler, who passed information to the East...