Word: clammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chemical Co. has put out a complete "Exec-Chart" ticking off everyone from "Top Dogs" to "Hoi Polloi," lists their "visible appurtenances" of power, from "shoeshine service" to "plant stands." Sample: "Luncheon Menu for Top Dogs: Cream cheese on whole wheat, buttermilk and indigestion tablets. Menu for Hoi Polloi: Clam chowder, frankfurter and beans, rolls and butter, raisin pie a la mode, two cups of coffee." Pacific Gas & Electric Co., like many others, sensibly gives a man what he needs to operate, whether it is one phone or three. Other companies do better by an executive who is out where...
...Clam diggers had their perennial complaint of flats closed because of pollution...
...typical man-in-the-street opinion was voiced by an elderly Roman lady who has never forgotten the horrifying occasion in 1944 when a U.S. War Relief organization tried to feed her canned clam chowder. Said she: "I never thought that I would live to see the day when a chimpanzee earned more money than most humans and was sent on a grand tour. But then, what can you expect of a people who make soup out of shellfish and boiled milk...
...place of the athletic diet of baseball, tennis, and golf, approximately 2,000 lobsters were substituted, accompanied by tureens of clam chowder and appropriate mountains of chicken and lettuce and tomato salad...
...Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...