Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stray and divided as sheep. They had dissolved their political parties and their lobbying machines. They had no aims, no organization, no hope. Their first and only act was to adjourn until January 20. Then, in a mockery of the days when they could at least pretend to steer laws, some of them banded together in a Diet Members' Club, to "direct proceedings." With this they were vastly satisfied-until they found that the man who organized the club was an agent of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, which is run by Colonel Hashimoto...
...done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer J. Charles Yule, of Alberta, Canada, who had been given the ticklish job of choosing the grand champion steer of the show. This was the big show's climax...
...another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift his steaks however it suited him. Her bare knees shook with excitement in her half-length boots...
...both Presidential specials, publicity-loving Floridians consoled themselves with a sevencar special of their own last week. As backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing...
...none had won a third election to the Presidency. Knowing U. S. history as a boy knows batting averages, Franklin Roosevelt knew that he had left the shelter of precedent, had pushed off on a course without chart or landmark. Through the vapor that is the future he could steer only by the North Star of his own purpose...