Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera directed them to a friend's house, roused a woman there, and emerged a half hour later to advise Eliot, who by that time had the chills, "Your tea is ready." Eliot drank the tea, which tasted like nothing he had ever encountered before, and insisted on knowing what was in it. The woman said it would be better if he didn't, and gave him a second cup. Finally, she said: "It's an Indian recipe - my grandmother's. It's made of powdered cockerel's whiskers." "That may be," says Eliot...
This survey--the Administration prefers to think of it as an "inquiry"--is being made by Andrews S. Seiler who is most decidedly a food expert. He is also a member of the Overseers Dining Halls Visiting Committee which qualifies him as a friend of the University, and this is fine because he won't be selling any steam tables along with his survey...
...surplus set was quickly identified as an I.F.F. transmitter (Identification, Friend or Foe), a highly secret wartime device used by ships and planes for broadcasting an identification signal. If the plane crashed, the "Destructor" exploded, making a molten mass of the wiring and preventing the enemy from reproducing either the wiring or the identification signal...
...aviation people or representatives of nations with which Pan American has air agreements. Adaptable Mrs. Trippe has had to learn to chat intelligently about everything from "chosen instruments" to wing loadings. She learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking aviation." Even so, he bounds...
...salary of $23,050 a year. His fortune stems from what he has been able to make on Pan American stock, of which he owns or controls some 69,000 shares (now worth 1,000), only 1.1% of Pan Am's 6,145,082 shares. Said one friend: "Trippe doesn't care about making money. He's thinking in terms of domination...