Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway, he said, "I reckon to know more about how to till my own land than any Government official." Defiantly, he sowed buckwheat. Thereby he committed two offenses: 1) he ignored the Committee's orders; 2) he planted buckwheat. In Britain, a farmer cannot plant buckwheat without a license. Busy Farmer Dennis...
...background for growing up. Parents were willing to be mature, to take responsibility; sensing this, the young deferred to them and were content to remain young. There was, he thinks, a more serene friendliness between boys & girls when sexuality was postponed in favor of romance. "Statisticians have yet to reckon the nerve strain in American life which comes from precocious attempts at maturity and painful struggles to retard middle...
Besides nine men on the field, Dodger opponents have to reckon with a snarling, hooting, heckling row of benchwarmers. Said Manager Burt Shotton: "I'll tell you how we won the St. Louis series. The bench won it." What the exuberant Dodgers seemed to need is not so much a manager as a father. In mild, 62-year-old Burt Shotton, they have just...
Last week, ex-Usher Vic Damone was 19 years old and somebody for Sinatra to reckon with. He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality." His first record (of I Have But One Heart and Ivy), released six weeks ago, had already sold 100,000 copies. Damone fan clubs were fizzing up like hot pop. And last week young Vic had binged into big-time radio as star of the coast-to-coast Saturday Night Serenade (10-10:30 p.m., CBS). "Geez," he said, "altogether I'm making...
...armies will be built up from scratch. Last week the British-owned Calcutta Statesman lamented: "Within nine months, therefore, unless plans have meanwhile to be altered under pressure of events, the best army in Asia (with the possible exception of that which Russia keeps in Siberia) will, we reckon, be reduced to about a sixth of its present military value-perhaps less...