Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Heritage." Without changing clothes, he sped off from the welcoming ceremonies in Victoria Station to address a luncheon meeting of the upper-crust Pilgrims Society at the Savoy, got a nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage...
...memory of this fellowship I carry emblazoned on my fading consciousness. It is the memory of staggering upstairs from the dining hall to my moist and tropical room, my belly swelled with an evening feast of boiled potato, wads of creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust and glass upon glass of tepid milk. (It is of such starch that tomorrow's leaders are made.) It is the memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory...
...Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...
...Point of No Return. Even the town is the same-Clyde, Mass.-and the home-town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound. He had just sold his first play, and in the happy Fitzgerald days...
...know what it's like in the Yukon wild when it's sixty-nine below; When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow...