Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amidst his preparations to lead a New Zealand expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
...snowy morning last week, squads of workers swept the apron of Paris' Orly Field. They swept to such purpose that when his Super-Constellation taxied up that afternoon, His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco could step out in white pointed slippers on dry ground. Nothing was too good for Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, the pro-Nationalist monarch who, a prisoner of the French in Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with...
Such adventures came but seldom. Bill was not the boy to notice that the apron strings of Pasadena propriety were holding him as fast as a straitjacket. All went well enough until Bill was in his teens, when suddenly he was overcome by an urge to experience danger. Soon he was making a good part of his spending money from boys who bet him he couldn't jump a 4½-ft. fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail...
...sorry, and so will the customers, as the script strangles them slowly with the husband's apron strings. Now and then, though, that wonderfully funny man lets everybody up for air with a perfect piece of Tomfoolery. What is finally funny about Ewell, though, is not what he does but what he is. He is all the guys who live next door rolled into one, and that one seems to be himself. However, anybody who thinks his act is as natural as it looks will probably believe that clipper ships just naturally sail into bottles...
...when Nixon (who, like the other members of the Chowder and Marching Society, had been looking a little uneasy in a chef's cap and apron) arose to speak, he found himself full-face against his problem: political motives would be read into anything of substance that he might say. He had, therefore, to content himself with the unimportant...