Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent in Denver exactly five months earlier-the day before his heart attack. (In Denver, on Sept. 23, Ike shot 27 holes of golf. On the next to last day of his Georgia vacation he shot 18 holes of golf, hunted for two hours, sat up till 12:30 playing bridge.) There was an almost clinical detachment in his behavior on the golf course, where, ignoring his doctors' recommendation that he stick to the electric cart, he regularly turned to his companions to say, "Now let's walk a bit." The only possible conclusion was that the President...
Friendly Hedge. Also swinging through California, Campaigner Estes Kefauver faced the same kind of questions and left behind an entirely different impression. Calling the Emmett Till case in Mississippi "a horrible murder," he said he favored a federal anti-mob statute. In a friendly but carefully hedged statement he indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer...
...pampered tyrant, the American farmer, is about to get his boots licked again by both political parties . . . the Democrats will set up a pious, baritone moan about the wretched plight of American agriculture. They will pass a farm-relief bill, loaded till its axles creak with rigid price supports, loans, 'conservation' payments, and other shabbily disguised subsidies. Then they will pray for the President to veto...
...late risers, there is Government 106b, the history of political thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The course given by returning Professor Carl Friedrich is held in Sever 11 from 2:00 till...
Early on. and while still sober, she can richly crunch even Coward's soggier lines, tangle with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose...