Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good Joe" with talent is a good thing to see-as for his "whole wheat" charm, what woman wouldn't like to find that at her breakfast table...
...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...
Middleditch's own orbit ranges from vigorous, sweeping outdoor scenes that left one observer feeling that a ripening wheat field "might start rippling before your eyes" to harshly lighted, strong-colored still lifes depicting such mundane subjects as a bucket on a stool and a bunch of sunflowers (see cut). Says he: "The point about us is that we paint what we see around us. But we try to give it a new vision." The British Arts Council is so impressed by the New Realists' new vision that it is making the Kitchen Sink School Britain...
...epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns, now a farmers' market . . . but it was a world." To this world...
...jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam's and Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat field un der hail, the dancing fury of the summer sun or the polar malice of a prairie winter, he almost earns an A in writing...