Word: homesteading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were gone the instant they came-a brace of Air Force RF-101 jets screeching 200 ft. above Florida's Homestead Air Force Base. On the reviewing stand, President Kennedy turned to General Walter Sweeney, commander of the Tactical Air Command, and asked: "They wouldn't have been able to shoot down those ships at that speed and altitude, would they?" The general said no. Said Kennedy: "I'd like to see them again." And so the reconnaissance jets once more simulated the flights that had helped document the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba...
...words, "Aw shucks, Milly, Al Isn't do nothin." Then Milly discovers she's inherited $25,000 and she and Osgood agree to marry. Milly gets tears in her eyes and, in a heart-rending final scene, cries "Now we can pay ox the mortgage on the old homestead...
There was, perhaps, an undermanned stockade a mile or so away. If the alarm was given soon enough, he could crouch there in relative safety and watch his homestead burn. If there was no alarm-the usual case-he would almost certainly be butchered or held captive for the squaws to torture. Occasionally a captive would be ransomed or adopted, but young children were never spared; they were too weak to stand a long march to an Indian village, and were customarily brained against trees. Both sides took scalps as a matter of course, but on the whole the Indians...
...often concerned with socially unacceptable behavior were showered down on comedians and peelers indiscriminately. The audience, one performer said after the show, "was just like any other night." Teen-agers glanced furtively around, making certain that no one they knew saw them; one old man called the burlesque his "homestead" where he had come once a week for forty years...
...with green coupons." Elvis thoughtfully replies: "Only girls." The girls may or may not be right, but for one reason or another people pay good money to see Elvis Presley pictures. In this one, which is slightly better than most, Elvis plays a Georgia redneck who stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries to have him evicted, he stubbornly stands his ground. When some gamblers try to scare him out, he knocks their heads together like dice. And when the Southern...