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Word: chickens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Attorney General Brownell's Chicago speech, Sen. Sparkman is reported to have accused Brownell of treating Truman "like a common chicken thief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SICK CHICKENS | 1/14/1954 | See Source »

...full by J. Edgar Hoover as well as by one of Sparkman's own fellow Southern Democrats. If Brownell's truthful account of the White case happens to conjure up in Sparkman's mind the picture of a thief taking even such an innocent item as a poor little chicken, well, then it's just too bad about the honorable gentleman from Alabama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SICK CHICKENS | 1/14/1954 | See Source »

...there's probably more than one thief still hiding in our Washington chicken coop, and the chances are about 1 to 5 that each holds at least one Harvard degree. (That is the approximate ratio among those identified by witnesses whose testimony is set forth in the report: "Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SICK CHICKENS | 1/14/1954 | See Source »

...headstones with such inscriptions as "Resting on the Trail" and "Our Baby Girl." Over the holidays, however, many survivors also set up decorated Christmas trees or holly wreaths for the "little sleepers," and one San Francisco Chinese regularly spreads a post-mortem feast of cupcakes, fruit, lamb chops, boned chicken, hamburger, malted-milk tablets and Coca-Cola over the graves of two defunct dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...King and his aides were hustled into the farmhouse, where they were introduced to Farmer J. George Smith, 36, and his family. Then everybody sat down to a solid country dinner-fried chicken, acorn squash, mashed potatoes, string beans with bacon drippings, cider and green apple pie. King Paul explained that he preferred white meat, but the Queen, he said, liked dark meat, and "between us, we lick the platter clean." Then, to the astonishment of the Smiths, he recited the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme and promptly cleaned his own platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Nothing but Cadillacs | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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