Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from chore to chore on an imaginary bicycle. As a kind of fledgling adult who married the boss's daughter, works for the boss's lumber company and lives in the boss's house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second in the evening's whoopstakes. Bean moves as if he were being ejected from a toaster, and his voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice...
...wall. On it is an order for "two braised steak and chips, two teas without sugar," followed by a demand for "macaroni pastitsio." In a nervous swivet, Ben and Gus pile on their own stale snacks. But the machine is insatiable, asking for "one Char Siu and bean-sprouts." The men shout through a decrepit speaking tube that they have no more. Gus leaves for a drink of water, and the speaking tube instructs Ben to shoot the next man who enters the room...
...years. Biochemist Choh Hao Li has devoted himself to discovering the functions of a small part of a small, lima-bean-sized gland that is lodged at the base of the human brain. With each experiment the Canton-born professor of biochemistry and endocrinology has come closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...
...traditional hot bed of Central Kitchen discontent, Lowell put "Ken-L-Ration meat loaf," "grade double Z beef," and the often-mentioned, overboiled "green bean" high on its list of food served too frequently...
Lounges & Lanais. The hotel facilities, even for Hollywood, are spectacular. The bean fields, carefully tilled and planted, have yielded a lush landscape valued at $1,000,000; paths lined with giant palm trees wind throughout the wooded 15½-acre site, and plants spill up and out across patios, creating private vales only 50 yards from public bars; lounges open onto lanais heavy with the smell of orange trees. The setting is comfortable enough for the local colony, for whom it is a kind of family club and also affords a perfect stage for starlets or would-be starlets...