Word: clamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Frost. But Birds Eye has plenty of competition. There are 1,050 smaller companies whose 500-odd products include frozen clam chowder, gefüllte fish, ready-to-bake biscuits, strawberry shortcake, Chinese egg rolls, cheese blintzes, chicken pie, bullhead fillets, partridge, Australian rabbit, buffalo meat and mallard duck. But the biggest sellers are still staples of the U.S. kitchen, vegetables, fruits and juices...
...Clam Flats Hula...
...Hula-hula" is accompanied, up here on the clam flats, by a fetching contortion of undeveloped hips, with nary a skip missed...
Though his presence at press conferences occasionally causes officials to clam up, most Washington newsmen bear him no ill will. They cheerfully fill him in when he misses a story. Gossiping colleagues and Government officials rarely edit their conversation just because Todd is around. He is still a member in good standing of the National Press Club, though no longer welcome at the Overseas Writers. (He also dropped out of a car pool after learning that the FBI was investigating his traveling companions.) Though he files several thousand words a day, Todd does not do much talking. Unlike the Secretaries...
...first business before Monday's meeting was the election of various town officials-among them Fence-viewer, Surveyor of Lumber and Bark, and Clam Commissioner. The next items in the warrant covered every sort of town problem: among them a plant to install parking meters in the center of town, appropriations for the repair of the Town Wharf, the need for a new fire engine. Each article in the warrant had been considered by the town's Finance Committee, a part appointive, part elective board, and this committee made recommendations to the meeting...