Word: biscuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal of the day-a feast of hamburger, vegetables, bran and dog biscuit. Once in a while they get canned peaches...
...Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to found "a greene Country Towne" in 1682-or at least since Karl Marx's First International broke up there...
Philadelphia wondered what UNESCO was. A biscuit? A radio station? That Rumanian composer? The letters stood for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It was dedicated to the proposition that "since wars begin in the minds of men . . . the peace must therefore be founded . . . upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Few at its Philadelphia conclave disagreed with that proposition. Fewer still were sure they knew what it meant...
...came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth chocolate biscuit you've eaten. You're as bad as Mother-you don't know when to stop...
...suits demanding the whopping sum of $1,300,000,000. The suits came so fast that newspapers ran lists of companies sued in long columns, like disaster victims-which they well might be. The unions sued Bethlehem Steel for $200,000,000, Curtis-Wright for $29,000,000, National Biscuit Co. for $50,000,000, and prepared to sue the Ford Motor Co. for $300,000,000. In all, the total of suits might reach a stratospheric $6 billion...