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...three Tennessee hams and some sides of smoked fatback, he filled a five-gallon grease bucket with wheat shorts, crimped oats and water to make a slop for the four Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest-high tombstone of his great-grandfather, Samuel Sampson Carver (1847-1938), symbol of a farm era that, although gone, still presses its influence on Joe Moore...
...informative entry under plumbing (vodoprovod, and mostly bad, in Russia), the student will not learn why fellow traveler (poputchik) is now used only by such enemies of the people as congressional committees, or that the word progressive (progressivny) now means what fellow traveler once meant. The American scholar gets shortest shrift. What was a Browderite? The love less Lovestoneite? The sad Shachtmanite...
...officials estimate, only about 100 defectors have redefected in response to the appeals, which have been made by personal letter, by radio and in new magazines, e.g., Czechoslovakia's For Return to the Homeland. Most have been Czechs, who have the shortest distance to travel, and most have been refugees cooled off by the two-year D.P. camp detention which is all but automatic for escapees from the East. Last week on Poland's Radio Homeland, one Stefan Michalsky." onetime Voice of America announcer, took to the air to say the Vistula never looked lovelier, and to urge...
...classicists as pounding out madrigals to a boogie-woogie beat. The central canon of ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower, man by a medium branch placed at the side, and earth by the shortest branch, placed before the heaven branch. From this came the rikka (standing) and the nage-ire (thrown in) styles...
Sheikh Ahmed Salem, 80, Egypt's shortest man (2 ft. 4 in.) traveled from his home in Upper Egypt to Cairo seeking Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser's help in recovering his stolen life savings, was photographed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers solemnly paying his respects to Egypt's husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) strongman, who ordered police to investigate the theft immediately...