Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anderson had not planned on such ostentation. He only demanded that the bridge bear the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, bean ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and Alma Mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...geishas were involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among them 59 company heads and directors and five Diet members, ended up in Tokyo's Kosuge prison accused of either giving or taking bribes. Streets outside Kosuge were filled with secretaries and geishas bearing gifts of chocolates, bean-paste cakes, silk pillows and $60 cashmere underwear for the prisoners...
...read. On such Christian junketings, "God's Groceryman," as some of his admirers call him, does not skimp his business duties; he keeps a sharp eye peeled for new merchandising ideas and wastes no time in putting them into practice. "I have to go home and sell a bean once in a while," he says...
...Good Companion. In North Sacramento, charged with drunken driving, Daniel Bean pleaded innocent, was asked if he had any witnesses to support his plea, got six months in jail when he replied: "No sir, judge. They were all drunker than...
...General William F. Dean said that he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity . . . I shudder to think of the situation that would exist within the armed forces ... if it became commonly acceptable for all military men to gulp the "Dean bean" that they have been gingerly carrying around with them in their watch pocket for use when in danger...