Word: cereals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Fix turned to the group, referring to a kind of compressed cereal, said, "Gentlemen, you have six doughboys. You may do with them what you wish." That day each person had one doughboy and a cup of tea for food...
...target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
...cast has consumed onstage some 1,170 Ibs. of coffee, 800 gallons of milk, 3,200 loaves of bread, 19,000 oranges and 2,200 boxes of breakfast cereal...
Buttressing Buddy (an unprepossessing teddy bear) will be 65 Universal-International color movie shorts, 100,000 record albums, a newspaper cartoon strip drawn by the artists of Superman, Buddy Bear dolls, pull-toys, crayons, paint sets, wallpaper, pajamas, toothbrush holders, cereal bowls, lamps, storybooks-"and countless other items of merchandise . . . under the Buddy Bear name." Some parents suspected that the time might come when the afternoon horror programs would be remembered with wistful regret...
Winnie the Enemy. Mclntire's principal clues to his master's condition were simply "[his] color, the tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize...