Word: castor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flesh touched flesh, and the deed at last was done (see cut). "They won't get any propaganda out of that one," said Dulles when he saw the prints. "I look as if I'd swallowed a dose of castor...
...Hell with Philosophy." Yet he showed intestinal fortitude at the rarest moments. When The Seagull flopped miserably on its St. Petersburg opening, Chekhov went home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left...
...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...start economizing in his own department, which manages more than 5,000 Government buildings, buys $430 million worth of supplies yearly for federal agencies, stores enough records to fill seven Pentagon buildings, and maintains the nation's $4 billion stockpile of critical defense materials, including feathers, sapphires, opium, castor oil and manganese. Mansure, whose agency buys $60 million worth of office supplies yearly, has already gone a long way toward trimming waste by standardizing purchases. Where GSA formerly bought 25 different chair styles, it now buys only one; instead of ten grades of paper clips, it buys four, eight...
...Part of his conviction comes from something he saw while driving across New Mexico from Holloman Air Force Base to Alamogordo. It was a clear, cool night and a full moon had risen. Menzel noticed near the moon two bright objects which he took at first for the stars Castor and Pollux. His astronomer's knowledge told him that Castor and Pollux would not be visible at that season, so he lowered the car window to get a better look. The stars turned into fuzzy disks with about one-quarter of the moon's diameter, and they kept...