Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of fellow Kentuckians, Thruston B. Morton has many political assets. He is tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and handsome. He is a seventh-generation member of a distinguished Kentucky family. He was a successful businessman (Louisville's Ballard & Ballard flour mills, now owned by Pillsbury), performed admirably in his three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, has since been valuable to the Eisenhower Administration as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of congressional liaison. But Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton also has a statewide political handicap in historically Democratic Kentucky. He is a Republican...
Chef's Special. In Taipei, Formosa, after 40 soldiers came down with food poisoning, a Chinese Nationalist army spokesman apologized to the troops, explained that instead of flour, a cook had mistakenly used insecticide...
...annual carnival, opened their windows to find a blanket of snow covering streets and palm trees. In Rome at least one moppet, seeing Rome's first real snowfall in his lifetime (ten years), begged permission of his parents to go out and play in the farina (flour). Ice formed on the lagoon in Venice, and near Naples kids went skiing on Mount Vesuvius...
Niarchos got his start in shipping while working in his family's flour-milling business in Greece in 1929. He convinced his "conservative" uncles that they could cut the cost of importing grain from Argentina by operating their own ships, later branched into shipping on his own. In 1939 Niarchos leased his eight ships to the Allies and went off to corvette duty as a Royal Hellenic Navy lieutenant. By war's end, half his ships had been sunk...
...dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars, went to work in a cotton mill when she was eight...