Word: silo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silo. Several months ago the National Better Business Bureau sent to a large number of suspected sharks the worst sample of lyric writing its staff could concoct...
...province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his own hands. In the state legislature he has risen in 18 years to be majority floor leader and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. So long as silo-tall Harold Stassen was on the scene in person, Dunn was a secondary figure. But when Stassen went off to war as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, Stassen's deputies were no match for Roy Dunn...
...nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...
When he leaves railways, he often discovers other strange features of the English landscape. A farmyard contains a tall tower leaning well to the right (". . . and my Italian prisoners put up the silo"). An enormous bomber roars low over a tiny cottage which, luckily, just fits between the bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide...
...fortnight, the husky, serious, silo-tall young man who was Minnesota's Governor had been working 15 hours a day to clean off his desk. In & out of Harold Stassen's deep-carpeted office in the State Capitol went men on last-minute business: legislators, businessmen, labor leaders, Republican bigwigs. Harold Stassen listened to all of them, between interruptions plugged away at humdrum details. On the floor above the Legislature dragged to a close...