Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffee-Break Cup. For the busy executive, whose morning cup of coffee at the office often gets cold before he can drink it, Emson Corp. put on sale an insulated, double-walled aluminum mug with a cap that works like a Thermos, keeps liquids hot for hours. Price...
...drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka's the stuff for Russians...
...loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...
...last fall, when Phillips and Home Oil geologists decided that Imperial had tried to tap Windy Point's Devonian limestone in the wrong place. In a historic gamble, the two companies decided to drill near Lesser Slave Lake, 450 miles to the south, hoping to find a heavy cap of nonporous rock that had trapped the oil in pools...
...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...