Word: apricot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what exactly to do." The housewares men scrambled as best they could. Some salesmen did business out of attache cases or in hotel rooms; former White House Chef Rene Verdon, who was supposed to perform at McCormick Place for the Scovill Manufacturing Co., whipped up gazpacho and apricot mousse in a suite at the Drake Hotel...
...last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver near the stem, and a bright new floribunda, Apricot Nectar...
...friends have proposed Lippincott & Marvelous, Hepcat & Strudel, Turnaround & Twinkletoes. Telephone calls are getting more urgent-and more frequent. In a week, I have 100 of them, and everyone in our organization is getting the same treatment. We are not likely to get any more letters addressed to Apricot & Hercules...
Masses & Glasses. The dance in the Radziwills' duplex, seven blocks south at 969 Fifth Avenue, got under way at about 11. A five-piece Lester Lanin group made music at one end of the apricot-moiré dining room. Kennedy Sisters Patricia (Mrs. Peter Lawford) and Jean (Mrs. Stephen E. Smith) were on hand, as was Architect Philip C. Johnson, Broadway Writer Adolph Green, and Marisol, the Venezuelan sculptress. Maurice Chevalier and Sammy Davis Jr. dropped in after their shows to do some turns...
...others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...