Word: haystack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women met at the well it was enough if one of them said: "Piers is at it again." Everybody knew Piers. Everybody knew whether the statement meant that Piers was experimenting with a new crop called "turnips," or giving money to the poor, or lying drunk in a haystack. The news at the well was not only intelligible, it was adequate...
Part of TIME'S $1.48 goes into a more or less clumsy effort to tell the reader what kind of guy Piers is, or why he tries to grow turnips or what are the chances that he'll set fire to the haystack and burn up his house, wife and children; in short, to tell, across the 20th Century community's backyards of specialization, complexity and confusion, what the news is, and to tell it in such a way that its hearer will take it in and be able...
...Meringur, near the South Australian border, Farmer Charles Mangan reported the overnight disappearance of a haystack worth $600. An old Mallee pioneer, after placing his false teeth carefully by his bedside, awoke to find them on the floor of another room, mauled by the mice...
...east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while the talk and search for a needle in the haystack goes on, the University's hesitancy to assume positive responsibility becomes apparent...