Word: pitchfork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that in ICA projects, "gringos run the show," snapped that the ICA Forestry School is "a useless luxury," called U.S. officials "impertinent...
Riddleberger's contacts with pitchfork, trowel and paintbrush were strictly as a young man in Woodstock, Va. He studied at Georgetown University, taught international relations there for three years after taking his master's degree, won appointment to his first foreign service post, vice consul in Geneva, in 1929. After a long career as a specialist in German affairs he was sent to Belgrade in 1953, worked hard at his end to get the Yugoslavs to enter into the agreement with Italy settling the nagging Trieste problem. In early 1958, President Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Greece...
...Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
Other minor errors also rile Gruber. "You don't shoot a man in the throat, and you don't kill him with a pitchfork or an ax," he argues. "We had a script here where the hero was killed with a pitchfork and I changed it to shooting. That very same week Jim [Gunsmoke] Arness killed two men with a pitchfork. That's not an honest western...
...Music Man. Feathery-footed, nimble-fingered, he is brassy, sassy and seemingly inexhaustible. Setting his style in his first big scene, he pounces on River City, peopled by folk straight out of Grant Wood's famed painting, American Gothic (one farm couple, in fact, gives a hilarious imitation, pitchfork and all, of the pair in the painting). River Cityans are high-minded, self-righteous...