Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training for the race both have avoided the outbreak of chicken pox which has struck several members of the crew. They have received favorable mention in the British press. The London Times, in particular, singled out Monks in its dally reports on the Cambridge work-outs. Writes the paper's correspondent, "Monks is their king pin, and dominates the crew. To see him start a hard paddle is a Joy, for he can move a mountain of water...
While washing down Southern fried chicken with orange juice in Charlotte, N.C., torrid Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, a blower of wild-valved cadenzas that could never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...
Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...
...instructor sitting at his control console decides where the mission shall start. By setting the apparatus, he can fly the desk-bound students anywhere he pleases in the northern hemisphere. As the simulated bomber heads for Alaska. Petropavlovsk or Greenland, the chicken-wire dome with its pinpoint stars wheels and tilts slowly just as the real stars would seem to do from the observation window of a real bomber...
...turned out canned rations for the Army and stepped up its gross from $9,000,000 to $43 million in 1944. But the biggest jump came with peace, when the Swansons noted both the boom in home freezers and the shortage of domestic servants, brought out beef, chicken and turkey pies, new roast beef and fried chicken dinners, all ready for the oven. Their first frozen TV Dinner (sliced turkey on cornbread, buttered peas, sweet potatoes, gravy) now sells at the rate of 13 million a year. Total production: well over 10 million packages a month, from the production lines...