Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic illustration is the proliferation of disposable materials from cutlery to paper dresses that last for a couple of enchanted evenings (and how many times can any single dress enchant?). One of the latest manufacturers to enter the field cheerfully labels his new line Waste Basket Boutique. Some economists argue enthusiastically that disposable togs may become great waste and money savers, particularly as once-only dresses for a graduation or wedding-thus casually dismissing an older generation's tradition of laying away wedding dresses as semisacred household lares. This may be the outer limit (there are still girls...
...tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down the throat and slipping a basket-shaped forceps down the tube to snip off the polyp...
...Palms. As a result, they now pump hands with a scientific assiduity that would have made the late Estes Kefauver look like a basket case. Can didates for congressional and statewide races nowadays do their best to avoid neighborhood coffee klatsches as too time-consuming in terms of voters palmed per hour. Instead, they bustle through factories, supermarkets and bowling alleys, developing calluses as they strive for 300 hands an hour. This year especially the individual candidate must grope his own way to success, since there are no presidential coattails to hang...
Bobby denies that he is laying plans six years in advance. "If I tried to, I'd destroy myself as a Senator," he says. "I'd be a basket case in three months." Besides, a strong streak of fatalism runs through him. "There's no use figuring out where you're going to be later on; you may not be there at all. So the sensible thing is to do the very best you can all the time." Still, he has a 20/20 eye on 1972. When a Georgia Democrat asked him which of six gubernatorial...
...death at home grading papers, then they had left to cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life, but, as it was so late in the afternoon, he left it behind. The iron bar in the picnic basket, he said, was simply a part of his camera tripod accessory that he had overlooked...