Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plymouth Rock, with "our victuals much spent, especially our beer," beer has been one of the staples of U.S. life. Revolutionary War soldiers got a daily ration; George Washington had his own small home brewery at Mount Vernon. To the sun-baked fisherman, the lawn-mowing suburbanite, the baseball fan, beer has always been the symbol of inexpensive relaxation. This week, as July ushered in the height of the beer-drinking season, Americans were pouring upwards of 100 million bottles...
...size of a half dollar, enclosed in protective glass. It has two electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...
...previous weeks on the CBS-TV show The $64,000 Question? Or should he let the money ride on another question about Shakespeare for $32,000? Appearing on the show for the third consecutive week, the good-looking, gun-toting scholar disclosed that an overwhelming 90% of his big fan mail begged him to take the $16,000. But fellow cops and newsmen, impressed with his knowledge of Shakespeare, urged him to risk four years' pay for eight. His decision? O'Hanlon admitted that "on one side is the egotism of a scholar; on the other side...
Three days before, Jack Fleck barely had the cash to pay his caddy. Suddenly, the golf world was his. Tears filled his eyes as he watched Gentleman Ben Hogan grin for the cameras and fan the red-hot Fleck putter, the Hogan-designed club that had carried him home...
Network Member. In Long Beach, Calif., Theater Proprietor Milt Arthur discovered an ardent fan laying cables in a trench under the fence of a drive-in movie, learned that he was trying to hook them to the theater's sound system so that he could hear as well as see the movies from his nearby home...