Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choicest cut of the meat packing business -which traditionally has the thinnest profit margin of any major industry - goes to Chicago's Armour & Co. One reason is Armour's chairman, William Wood Prince, an athletic and esthetic man of 47, who is equally at ease in a Michigan Avenue art gallery or on a stockyard's manure pile. In four years as chief executive, Billy Prince has raised Armour's earnings fivefold, to $16 million on last year's sales of $1.7 billion. This year, despite a first-quarter squeeze on profits. Prince expects...
...Grass Is Greener. A champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes-those beastly rich Americans-with Gary Grant playing an earl who tries to save his wife from a fate worse than death, i.e., Robert Mitchum...
...Grass Is Greener. A champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes-those beastly rich Americans-with Gary Grant brilliantly playing an earl who tries to save his wife from a fate worse than death, i.e., Robert Mitchum...
...Grass is Greener (Grandon; Universal), as a London play, was a champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...
Harry had a glancing blow for Dwight Eisenhower ("No Eisenhower veto ever built a dam, or helped a farmer"), but his choicest epithets were reserved for Vice President Nixon: "Tricky Dicky Nixon is cut from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the small farmer, against small business, against labor, against public housing, against public power. Come to think of it, I don't know what the hell he is for. And that bird still has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote...