Word: hay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inches of blue socks showing from beneath his pants, or whether he stood at a White House reception, his hands enormous in white gloves that as often as not burst under some diplomat's hand clasp. And yet Lincoln always had a sense of being different and apart. John Hay, his longtime presidential secretary, wrote that it was "absurd to call him a modest...
...lose. He'd start to comb the upper part of the village, enter each house, and demand to know from each kolkhoznik why he is not working down at the silo. The farm workers' rejoinders, he knew, would be the same as always: 'Let the hay rot. let the peas go to ruin...
...plantation, much better than the ones on the kolkhoz. Then there were cucumbers, potatoes . . . every inch was used." Naturally Petunya refuses to help bring in the harvest. " 'If I had a cow I might, but otherwise, why bother?' The chairman understands . . . Every year thousands of acres of hay are lost because kolkhozniki get only 10% of the hay they harvest. In order to feed his own cow he would have to harvest enough for eight or nine-and that's impossible. Each year it gets harder and harder to find workers for the kolkhoz silo...
...chuckle anthology is not quite the "riotous collection of political pleasantry" Cameo claims, but some of the bands are pretty skillful. Former Little Rock Congressman and now Special Assistant to the President Brooks Hays is given the largest play, and in general he is worth it. Hay's humor is not the subtle jab of Adlai Stevenson; rather it is folksy, obvious, and almost slapstick. If Hays' remarks were printed they would come off dreadfully, but his quips gain life when told with the soft drawl of the southerner...
...What would you have said, Eddie?" Hay asked...