Word: apricot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working as a carpenter, gained worldwide fame in the '20s, sold his work on commission and by the square foot (price range: 50?-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab") in the Sung Dynasty tradition...
...sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads with a whole spectrum of tints (cosmetologists never say "dye") that sport such come-on names as Golden Apricot, Sparkling Sherry, Fire Silver, Champagne Beige and just plain Black...
...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...
Swallows in the Palace. At 32, King Norodom is plump, with thick black hair and a taste for black knitted ties. At his palace, an elegant blend of saffron and apricot coloring, King Norodom maintains a stable of thoroughbred horses, ceremonial elephants and a personal troupe of 50 dancing girls. While swallows dart freely above him. King Norodom will often play the saxophone, or conduct his own personal orchestra. He also writes movie scripts and produces them, occasionally playing the lead himself. Once he was great as a mad scientist, turning human victims into zombies at the prick...
...product, a fruity concoction of trade secrets (rumored to be apricot brandy and bourbon), is a favorite of elderly ladies, is sometimes served with cracked ice and a canned peach in a solid-stemmed goblet...