Word: bran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry-and a man with a mission. Astounded by the incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull...
...Williams, 79, India-born chemist and longtime (1925-46) Bell Telephone chemical director, who in 1910 began independent research into the cause of the Orient's mysterious and killing beriberi disease, in 1934 found that the problem was a lack of thiamine, or vitamin Bl, derived from natural bran that rice-eating populations generally remove when polishing their rice; in Summit...
...Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Indiana corporation and utilities attorney, making his first try for elective office, appeared dust-dry compared with smooth Republican Lieutenant Governor Richard Ristine, 44. But Ristine was at first strongly for Goldwater, then backed away and thereby got the worst of both worlds. Newcomer Bran-igin easily upset Ristine...
Country Corn. When Rawlings took over, General Mills with its Wheaties and Cheerios ranked a distant third be hind Kellogg and Post in ready-to-eat cereals. Rawlings moved the company into "adult" cereals by introducing Country Corn Flakes (flavored with rice), Wheaties Bran with Raisin Flakes, and Total, a high-vitamin cereal. As a result, General Mills has now edged ahead of Post. Rawlings is also driving harder into convenience foods, where General Mills already has a strong bid with Betty Crocker mixes...
Last week, with nearly every loophole closed, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht led a gaggle of East German commissars and Soviet officers to the Bran denburg Gate. Atop the gate, once the principal gateway between East and West Berlin and now the capstone of Ulbricht's wall, a new flagpole had been hastily erected. As the East German hammer and compass flag was run up to celebrate his macabre triumph, Ulbricht watched happily...