Word: eater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed to "in homemade masks," but Actor Rod Steiger slipped up and said "in hoods" anyway. After all possible aspects of the script that might offend religious or regional groups were hashed over, the laundering was applied to whatever might cause Mexicans to take umbrage (deleted: "Mex," "enchilada-eater," "bean-eaters," "greasy...
...green-tiled bath. A dynamic orator with a superb rabble-raising style, he talks to his people nowadays in weekly radio chats, using simple Arabic and vivid images. He dislikes administrative responsibility and paper work, loves parties and the theater, seldom dines with fewer than 20. A light eater and sleeper, he lives for the cut and thrust of politics, admits, "I am a political animal." He still keeps up his wide contacts with more progressive French politicians in Paris; he is a friend and admirer of Pierre Mendès-France, who as Premier of France in 1954 started...
...from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became President of Michigan State in 1941 and nursed it from a modest college to a farflung, football-happy giant. As Assistant Secretary, Hannah had a hand in implementing desegregation in the armed forces. No fire-eater, he once expressed cautious sympathy for "local conditions," calling integration a goal to be reached by an "evolutionary process...
...admirers behind in the labyrinth of Finnegans Wake, will not be remembered for his letters. In them he sounds as relaxed, colloquial, and sometimes as pedestrian as a chatty uncle in Chicago. But they make fascinating reading-something like seeing the Bearded Lady without her whiskers or the Fire Eater spooning ice cream...
...Class Six, 305 to 350 cu. in., provided the big surprise. The Pontiac. the "old maid's delight" to last year's speed buffs, turned out to be 1957's fire-eater. With three dual carburetors, the 317-h.p., 347-cu. in. Pontiac engines won the first three places, at a top speed of 131.747 m.p.h., even though the fastest was disqualified from the flying mile on a technicality. Far back were the Plymouth Furys and Ford Fairlanes. In acceleration the Pontiacs ran first and second, the fastest reaching a record 85.308 m.p.h...