Word: things
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement plan, which would pay the farmer a bushel of surplus corn for every bushel taken out of production). Gilmour stuck doggedly to the Benson issue. Said Farmer John Augustine, a Democrat: "Gilmour made a mistake in running against a straw man. He didn't have a positive thing...
After the program, Benson telephoned Morton, arranged an appointment with him for the following day. Then Benson wrote out a statement: "Resign? I am resigned to one thing: to do my duty as I see it, to continue my fight for a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture." In a 45-minute talk with Morton the following afternoon, Benson made it plain that he meant what he had said: he was not going to resign...
...lumbered past the great farms, turned into the chuckholed sandy roads of the drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men and women with babies shuffled over, and some men pushed forward and gently laid their hands on the new thing. The Rev. Mr. Daniels took off his hat, bowed his head and said: "Father, thank thee for this wonderful blessing...
Martin I. v. George V. But last week the world moved closer all the same. Across the channel, the Devon County Council had sent off a letter to Her Majesty's Boundary Commission urging its claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...
...Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played for such an audience. They were David M. Keiser, board chairman of the Cuban-American Sugar Co. and president of the New York Philharmonic, and Carlos Moseley, the orchestra's associate manager and press chief...