Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production, make additional products which he could sell profitably, develop research to make others. For two years Shennan has been preparing his course by acquiring other companies, such as Kentucky's Wadsworth Watch Case Co. and Rhode Island's watchband-making Hadley Co., which also makes cuff links, tie clasps, etc. Elgin itself is importing Swiss movements for Wadsworth cases, and making compacts, emblems, and product name plates-plus $23 million of defense orders. Result: Elgin's 1952 sales are estimated at $50 million, v. 1950's $30.2 million...
...Panaceas." What did Ike get out of his trip to Korea? He tried to give an off-the-cuff summary to 125 correspondents who crowded into the Eighth Army's war room for a press conference on his last day. Said he: "We have no panaceas, no trick ways of settling any problems . . . How difficult it seems to be in a war of this kind to work out a plan that would bring a positive and definite victory without possibly running the grave risk of enlarging the war. There are many limitations in a war of this kind...
...goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...
TIME . . . undoubtedly prepared two covers for the post-election issue. What did the other one look like? FRANK B. CUFF...
...built up a reputation as a speaker. However, his off-the-cuff efforts proved to be full of ballooning sentences, and his speeches from prepared texts tended to be wooden. At one point he threw out all prepared texts and-while his advisers watched him as nervously as if he were a time bomb-made some major speeches off the cuff. That way his sincerity came through, but Ike was not used to the split-minute timing necessary for television, sometimes rambled on, made some blunders. Ike finally settled on a prepared text in a looseleaf notebook from which...