Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving his special campaign train to travel to Kentucky by air, Ike continued his attack that night from Lexington. Seventeen thousand University of Kentucky students and Lexington townspeople interrupted him time and time again with short, hard bursts of applause as he belted away at "the opposition." Wherever and however he has served his country, he said, he has never found the choice between "going forward or going backward" difficult. Yet, in 1956, "a lot of politicians" are doing their best to make such a choice look "extremely hard." Then, scornfully, he wondered if such action could be attributed...
...mother of Susan Strasberg. who created the Anne Frank role on Broadway, described what happened in Berlin: "After the curtain fell there was a deep, dark silence. Not a sound. It seemed to me the people weren't even breathing. It lasted minutes but seemed interminable. Then a thousand human beings arose and left the theater. And still there was not a sound. I felt I had to walk outside to breathe. I met friends, and we asked each other, 'Have you ever had this kind of experience before?' None of us ever...
...rural Midwest, much of its force is being blunted by two feelings. One is a deep sense of gratitude to President Eisenhower for ending the Korean war. The other is a widespread dislike of Adlai Stevenson among farmers, and criticism for his divorce . . . In 1952 among several thousand voters I interviewed, only about a dozen brought up Stevenson's divorce as their reason for voting against him. In this campaign, however, in nearly every city and farm county I have gone into, one of more voters have volunteered that they would be for the Democrats except...
...results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none of it going to the farmers and with farmers helping to pay the bill. And these surpluses, by holding down...
...story of these three winds forward from the brute's purchase of the heroine from her mother for a few thousand lire. With his frightened purchase he takes to the road on a tumble-down trailer built onto a motorcycle, and is soon teaching the girl a few simple tricks--blowing a horn or dancing a few steps--with which to decorate his act. Despite frequent cuffs and constant glowering from her master, the half-wit begins to enjoy her simple performances at rural festivals...