Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evasions, a reader is likely to find himself lightheartedly rooting for the reporter. The doings and undoings, anyway, all appear to be good clean smoking-room fun. Then, it suddenly becomes apparent that in the hero's blithe pursuit of what appears to be fair game lurks the seed of the same violence that brought the young widow to death on the cold basement floor. The frustrated reporter finds himself crouched in the dark on a fire escape outside the salesgirl's window, titillated by notions of breaking and entering...
...country house; Elbridge Gerry staying up into the late hours, poring over maps by candlelight and contorting electoral districts into weird configurations; James Russell Lowell leading lively discussions in the sitting room, gazing out the window from time to time at the horse chestunt tree he raised from seed; A. Kingsley Porter holding seminars in Fine Arts high on the third floor; Mrs. Porter interviewing visitors to her gloomy mansion and fending off the sewer installers; Franklin Ford smoking his pipe behind the desk that was once a dining room table; and, surely, future Deans supervising Faculty affairs from...
...though there is a possibility that the Senate might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan for loans to 6,000 small businessmen to stimulate grass-roots private enterprise, and force withdrawal of U.S. support for 60 mobile medical units which provide treatment for 2,000,000 people in 600 Central American villages. And finally...
...downed birds, happily transmit information about good hunting grounds, and try not to sprinkle the neighboring encampment with No. 6 bird shot. They get on famously with farmers in the richly irrigated valley, who find the grain-eating doves a nuisance (the dove population consumes 300 tons of seed a day). What's more, each hunter spends $30 a day, and to egg him on, the local innkeepers and Chambers of Commerce provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests, and the various across-the-border delights of Mexicali, including a "Valencia" pigeon...
...loans on apartment as well as houses. Now they want power to finance a whole "home-loan package" that will include financing furniture, appliances, municiple bonds and even college tuitions. They are also pushing a move to win federal sponsorship of an International Home Loan Bank that would provide seed money (furnished by S & Ls ) to start savings and loan associations in Latin America. The S & Ls' aggressive push to expand their horizons is sure to create a battle with commercial banks, whose "friendly bankers" are now making a harder pitch than ever to attract the little...