Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the long tables had been cleared, the workers ambled bashfully up to the platform and waited for the dinner. The spotlights went off and the waiters trooped in with silver urns full of Cream of Chicken Soup. There were also croutons which the Press Table's waiter managed to spread neatly all over the newsmen. Then came steaks with mushroom sauce, and lastly, "Ice Cream Ring Aux Fraises" complete with liqueur sauce. "You could get drunk on this," warned the reporter sitting next...
...distinguished looking bon vivant pictured here and on ensuing pages grew tired yesterday of the sedentary life middle-age had pressed upon him, and decided to go out on the town to see if he could find a chicken or two to go stepping with. If life begins at 40, said the gay old bird, why not at 41. So down he came, into the city of sin he had watched over for so long, to get a closer view...
...Doing Something." Nobody in Washington paid much attention to the new Senator from Wisconsin, not even after McCarthy invited eight women reporters to dinner and cooked them fried chicken himself. Joe wanted to "do something." He had a horror of Senators who quietly tended their fences and got safely re-elected term after term. He took an interest in ending sugar rationing, in the five-percenters, got himself appointed vice chairman of a joint committee on housing, and became known as a friend of the real-estate lobby...
Patrons of the College's central kitchen may have been eating crow, under the alias "chicken salad," during fall and spring migration seasons, it was learned over the weekend...
...Ford would say: "Well, now, you've got the best religion in the world." This gave rise to reports that he leaned toward various faiths, but, Bennett says, Ford had "his own private religion." He believed strongly in reincarnation. His proof, says Bennett, was simple. Pointing out that chickens, which used to run in front of autos and get killed, now headed for the side of the road, Ford said: "That chicken has learned, because it has been hit in the [behind] in a previous life...