Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outer-Space Raspberry." If the Administration's actions and reactions were an opportunity for Democrats, they were also a source of deep concern ito many Republicans and other Administration friends. Said Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a member of the Armed Services Committee: "Let the Administration shake off its complacency and act." Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper called upon the Administration to face ihe "harsh reality'' of Soviet progress: "If there have been faults in the organization of our missile program (see box opposite), or if arbitrary spending limits have been imposed...
...Larson's book was also his ruination. Old Guard congressional Republicans got sore at being classified as fossils. Modern Republicans such as Vermont's Senator George Aiken disliked having a nonpolitician draw a line across the G.O.P.; so did the Republican National Committee. The Democrats got riled at Larson's professional stump speeches ("Throughout the New and Fair Deals, this country was in the grip of a somewhat alien philosophy, imported from Europe"), and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson personally took on the task of cutting the hapless Larson to pieces. Thus, when Larson...
MARLBORO,Vt.--Marlboro college is the smallest college in the United States today. Situated in a remote woodland district of Vermont's Green Mountains, it more closely resembles a small farm than it does a college...
...when the thaw starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month and helps to break the monotony of cold and frustrating isolation that envelopes the winter weeks...
...slogan endured, despite the fact that in the 29 presidential elections since 1840 it has been wrong nearly half (twelve elections) the time. Cracked Democratic Strategist Jim Farley, after Franklin Roosevelt swept 46 states in 1936: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont...