Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York to swing the state and the presidency to Democrat James Polk. Four years later, the Free Soil Party did the same thing for Whig Zachary Taylor...
...That Red Soil. But lately Ed O'Neal has slowed down. At 72, his hands and his head shake with palsy. He has difficulty lighting his Dunhill pipe. Last week, at the Farm Bureau's 29th meeting in Chicago, Ed O'Neal finally stepped down from the $15,000-a-year office he had held since...
Soon, Ed will return to his 1,800-acre cotton and wheat farm near Florence, Ala., where he was born. "I shore'n hell love that red soil," said Ed. "I'm too old to handle a team of mules the way I used to. But I been fixin' up the little old house, and I guess I'll just go there and kind of take it easy...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...
Crimson Coach Johnny Chase still has a squad in the throes of development, and he hopes for experience more than for success in this vacation opener on foreign soil, scheduled for this evening at 8:15 o'clock...