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Word: yokels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled. Nehru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Melt Steel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...didn't exactly collide with any undergraduate dog breeder, but the visit turned up a gent whose mother raises retrievers, another (Class of '06) who appreciated fine pointers, and a yokel from New Hampshire who lived for boxers and vice versa...

Author: By Ernest L. Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...first lands him in the Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...armies of long ago," observes Moran, "were recruited, broadly speaking, from men who did not feel fear. Their courage seems to have had its roots in a vacant mind. Their imagination played no tricks. . . . Were the descendants of these yokel soldiers the backbone of our army ... in 1918? I shall answer that the man who felt no fear was hardly to be found in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Briton on Courage | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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