Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prices and a rebate is getting harder and harder each year. The rebate rates for 1968-69 were cut slightly. "Nobody wants to cut them," says Brown. "But we can't pay what we don't earn. As they say, you can't get blood out of a turnip...
...with the same brutal indifference that he once applied to sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. "When I was training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer." He thought, too, about Quarry. "He bleeds," said the ex-butcher. "He cuts. I expect we'll see some more...
...GREAT BIG ENORMOUS TURNIP, by Alexei Tolstoy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $3.95). "The mouse pulled the cat, the cat pulled the dog," etc., until mouse, cat, dog, granddaughter, old man and old woman get the enormous turnip out of the ground...
...American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits-but that was plenty." And the entertainment was strictly homemade, usually singing along to the crackling of a country station on a wooden radio...
...year at the end of June, Brown is afraid that the membership rebates will have to be cut again this year. "Nobody wants to cut them," says Brown. "But we can't pay what we don't earn. As they say, you can't get blood out of a turnip...