Word: turnips
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...Turnip Day. "How did the House of Representatives decide to make a cut like this?" he asked at a dedication ceremony for a new AMVETS headquarters in Washington. "Did they say, 'We have been over the whole defense program and we think you ought to plan something smaller?' No, no, they didn't say anything like that. They said, 'This program is all right-but we won't provide the money to put it over! . . .' They just said, 'Cut it-and don't bother us with details.' I wish...
...throwback to the 1948 Democratic Convention, where Nominee Truman, in a 2 a.m. acceptance speech, announced that he was summoning Congress into special session for July 26, "which out in Missouri they call Turnip...
Only a few rhymes have known authors (e.g., Dr. Johnson, who one day suddenly spouted: "If a man who turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...
...comforting to know that all the gold bricks, latrine lawyers, sick-call specialists can line up for their $120 a month. As an ex-member of the expendable 106th Division, who was stupid enough to find himself overseas fighting for somebody's turnip patch, and to lose a leg, how do they...
...Turnip's Blood. In Houston, Louis E. Northcutt caught a burglar at work in his cafe at 2 a.m., called the police with a coin he borrowed from the burglar...