Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through a blur of urban haze for a smooth landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. It was 2:47 p.m. when Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, fresh in dark grey summer-weight suit and light grey tie, emerged blinking into the sunlight from the forward hatch, followed in a few moments by Wife Pat, by the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower, by the Navy's Atomic Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover and the rest...
...Fresh and buoyant in a blue print dress and matching turban, Mamie Eisenhower took a few practice swings, baseball-style, then smashed a champagne bottle frothily on the looming bow, pronouncing the traditional formula: "I christen thee N.S. [for nuclear ship] Savannah.* Godspeed." After a second's hesitation, America's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel slid easily down the ways at Camden, N.J. and into the waters of the Delaware...
Critics occasionally object to Clemens' odd recipes (he once prepared an omelet from an ostrich egg), and often accuse him of what they consider heinous culinary sins: he has been known to dip breaded cutlets in gravy (making a soggy crust), mix fresh cream with Madeira (which makes the cream run), and boil beef after searing it in a pan (making the meat tough). But Der Fernsehkoch has a ready answer: "As an actor, I know what goes over...
SALTWATER CONVERSION plant will be built near Houston, Texas by Government to convert more than a million gallons of sea water daily into scarce fresh water for city and Dow Chemical Co. Plant will be finished by early 1961 at cost of $1.5 million, is first of five to be authorized (total cost: $10 million) in the search for economic methods of conversion...
When Rock Island railroadmen complained about their corncob-filled caboose mattresses half a century ago, they unknowingly baptized a working practice that is as old as man's labor and as fresh as this week's news. Chided the trainmaster: "What do you want-featherbeds?" Since then, featherbedding-the purposeful slowing down or spreading out of work to make jobs-has become one of the most emotion-packed points of dispute between...