Word: sodding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other parties to the agreements (who got immunity to testify for the Government), the defendants controlled 60% to 80% of the nation's $50 million hand implement business...
...addition, three professors have gone to the University of Leningrad, as part of an exchange program between the two Universities. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Merle Fain-sod, professor of Government, and Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History, will remain in Russia for the next two weeks and interim arrangements have been made for their courses...
...Vagabond Liver. On the auld sod of Dublin, Behan makes even less attempt at apology. "I'm addicted to drink," he announces calmly. "In the part of Dublin I come from it's no disgrace to get drunk. It's an achievement." Followed by a horde of slum urchins begging sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders...
Britain's Eric Portman is excellent as Cornelius Melody, a vainglorious Irishman who has quit the auld sod, risen to glory in Wellington's armies, been cashiered and is now living out his disgrace as a shabby saloon keep in the Boston of the 1820's. Helen Hayes survives her own saccharine whimsy as the harassed biddy married to a ruined cavalier, and Kim Stanley is impressive in the role of the old man's pride-ridden daughter. New Haven critics and audiences were divided, but "Con" Melody's brogue should still make...
Fairbanks was once a settlement quilted with sod-chinked log cabins. Today, livelier than ever, it still has many cabins, but the city has good utilities, the University of Alaska (on-campus enrollment: 700), a handsome Professional Building, and an urban redevelopment program that is chewing up the old cabins once inhabited by the bawds of "the line" to make room for more acceptable businesses...