Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHILDREN OF THE BLACK-HAIRED PEOPLE (435 pp.) - Evan King - Rinehart($5). THE RICE-SPROUT SONG (182 pp.)-Eileen Chang-Scribner...
...trade: the little man with a big idea. In this script he is a big man-a millionaire, in fact-with a little idea: to take his 20-year-old son (Vernon Gray) on a trip to Paris and see if there's life in the young sprout yet. Little does he realize that the idea for the trip was really planted by the son, who wants for his part to see if there's life in the old stalk yet. Soon they meet a pretty midinette (Odile Versois)-just right for junior, father thinks. Then they meet...
...Republican officeholders who should be pushed upward and forward in the Eisenhower-led G.O.P. In pointing to men like Craig as the coming leaders of the party, the President has recognized a key fact of political life in the U.S.: much of the government and most of the politics sprout and grow in the states; what happens in the 48 capitals has a determining effect on the caliber of men who appear in national politics and on the quality of government they produce...
Through his feeling for animals, says a friend, Walt is related to nature and to the mother warmth of the earth. Out of this earthiness, Walt feels, there sprout whatever seeds of creativity he has. "I'm an earthy guy, all right," he says. Some of Disney's detractors disagree. The cartoon animals bear almost no relation to real animals. Nature in them is not idealized; she is at best played for pratfalls and at worst she is simpered over and over-sanitized. Indeed, the man whom all the world knows as Mother Nature's right-hand...
...town begins to sprout posters, street banners, window cards and bumper stickers announcing the impending crusade. Typical of the Graham team's meticulous know-how is the way its members tackled the matter of bumper stickers. First they tested the different methods of attaching a sign to a bumper-string, elastic, clips, hooks, adhesive. Having decided adhesive was most lasting, they began testing surfaces, determined on a kind called "Dayglo" which shines in sunlight or headlight. Dayglo comes in single, double and triple screen, hence more testing and the decision to use double. To find the best adhesive, lots...