Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general preoccupation with trivia-I mean Coke-machines, launderettes . . . laxatives and baseball-I construed as the American attempt to exclude the bigger reality. If you have a lot of little gadgets to divert attention, the larger issues are unlikely to occur to you, and existence is less satisfying but a damn sight more comfortable...
News, Editorial, Business, and Photographic Boards all have openings for qualified upperclassemen, candidates will receive a warm beer-or-coke welcome at the Tuesday night kickoff...
...decided to give up his House seat to run again for the Senate. He whirred across Texas by helicopter in a series of 18-hour campaigning days that won him a hairbreadth 87-vote margin over popular ex-Governor Coke Stevenson. Since then, he has been a loyal, but not unquestioning, supporter of the Fair Deal; when it came to voting on labor and civil-rights bills, he lined up with the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats to help defeat the Administration program...
...Greenwich, Conn. (pop. 38,000), barbers posted a new price scale: shave and a haircut, two bucks. And rising costs wiped out another price landmark. In Philadelphia, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upped its prices by 15? a case, thus forcing retailers to charge 6? for a bottle of Coke...
...does he plan to go about it? Says Harari anxiously: "I just don't know." Meanwhile, he has a lot of work piled up ahead of him, painting pretty teen-agers and frosted Coke glasses...