Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President, explained Press Secretary Hagerty, painted it from his own imagination and memory...
...being chosen by one's company is not enough. The executive must then pass a screening committee of senior faculty members who must weed out a few applications in order to reach a class size of one hundred and fifty. Working on a concept of "the best class possible," the committee divides applicants according to their function within a corporation, the size of the comany and geographical location. This fall's AMP class has 130 Companies represented (43 of them participating for the first time), 30 states, and 18 foreign countries. The average age of participating executives is 43.9 years...
...Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner. Though she did not give up the weed herself until she was 51, Dr. Jordan has become convinced that smoking is invariably bad for a wounded digestion-for the ulcer victim it is "like pouring gasoline on a fire...
What saved the crops was the fact that many farmers wisely retired their dustiest fields to fallow. On their remaining acres, they used new chemical weed killers, planted drought-resistant strains whose roots went down 5 ft. to bring up moisture. By last week the victory was in sight: not only was the yield per acre good, but the wheat itself was rich in protein and sure to command top prices on world markets...
...walked to the chair in Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself. His salvation is Magazine Writer Holloway, who is doing a series of taped interviews...