Word: stockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOSEPH STOCKER...
...slug on them") and weather lore ("If the wind gets in Gravely Gap, it will rain"), told how the farmers call in their cows ("Coof, coof, nare, nare, nare"). They interviewed all the most prominent people in town-from Lieut. Colonel O.N.D. Sismey, the village squire, to Mr. P. Stocker, the butcher ("His scales are very accurate, as they should be"). Reported one scholar of Mr. J. Dudley, the roadman: "If Mr. Dudley is not sweeping leaves, he is sometimes cleaning drains. When I asked him if he liked cleaning drains, he answered 'Not much...
...read with no little amusement the fuss stirred up in Newmarket (England) by Mrs. Stocker [TIME, Sept. 3]. Mrs. Stocker is still young-by all standards. You Americans are sometimes perturbed by the growing "anti-Americanism" now to be seen throughout the world . . . What is the cause of all this? It's all so very simple...
...Joan Stocker sounds like a spoiled, irresponsible brat, and it might be a good idea to send her home...
...Force public relations officers rushed around trying to soothe the townsfolk; at an Anglo-American garden party they talked hands across the sea and dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...