Word: cheddar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
...passenger glider trains to 29 buyers, including Mack Trucks, the University of Connecticut, several amusement parks and the city of Stamford, Conn. Borden Co. will pay about $35,000 to the Wisconsin pavilion for the world's largest cheese 34,591-lb., 14½-ft.-long cheddar, which the company plans to haul in a refrigerated "cheesemobile" and display around the U.S. To their employees, Ford will sell most of its cars, Du Pont its furniture and RCA its color TV sets -at substantial markdowns...
...World's Fair looks as if it had been created by some usually normal person who had taken meascaline and allowed his consciousness to go wild. The world's biggest cheese a (seventeen-ton cheddar) sits near a simulated cigar chimney that blows ten-foot smokerings 150 feet into the air. Near the "Festival of Gas" loom nine life-size dinosaurs, and one display boasts a "university for porpoises...
Real Shaked. Even before the balloting began, the McCormack men could see defeat in the offing. Eddie's dad, "Knocko" McCormack, sat sadly in the Cheddar Cheese Room, an eatery in the bowels of Springfield's Sheraton-Kimball Hotel, and spoke darkly about the Kennedy lieutenants. "They're cold, they're cold," said old Knocko. "I got here at 12:30 last night, and I got in the elevator with an old friend from Northampton. He's been in the American Legion with me for years, and I say, 'Hello...
...increased 10% to 20% every year, last year grossed $210,000 and nearly $40,000 in pretax profits. Among other McDonald licensees are an ex-research chemist, a former Waldorf-Astoria cook, a Chicago detective, and the onetime head of research at Kraft Foods (which supplies a special cheddar for McDonald's 19? cheeseburger...