Word: pitchfork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precedents & "Pitchfork Ben." In working toward its decision on the case of Joe McCarthy, the Watkins committee had little precedent to draw on. In its 165-year history the U.S. Senate has considered only two motions of censure. Both were adopted...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...
...Your vile falsehoods to destroy McCarthy should be jammed down your lying throats with a pitchfork...
...idea occured on a trip to Europe in 1928. It was simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
Along the rutted road back from Pitchfork Ben's heyday, a great argument has developed about just what kind of equality Congress and the state legislatures meant to give the Negro through the 14th Amendment. Its language seems sweeping enough, but many lawyers are impressed by the fact that it contains no specific declaration on segregation. That point has become important in the cases now before the Supreme Court...