Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor disappointment. Bevin had asked for snails (which he learned to like during the Paris Conference last summer), but had not given the Embassy chef enough notice. At dessert, fruit had to be substituted for strawberry melba, be cause, at the last moment, the iceman (striking for five francs more an hour) did not come...
...into two broad classes: grasses (wheat, corn, rice); and broad-leaved plants (cotton, vegetables, clovers). Scientists discovered several years ago that 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) would kill broad-leaved plants while leaving grasses alone. But it is no help at all to gardeners, truck farmers and fruit growers whose broad-leaved crop plants are being choked with grass...
...went to have his mid-day coffee, an enthusiastic china and glass salesman was trying to unload his products on the lunch counter manager. "Yes, sir, we're now in a position to supply you with a complete line of these glasses. Take this little number. Invaluable for serving fruit jnices. Specially processed to stand up under rough treatment." He dropped it on the counter with what he hoped was a convincing lack of concern for its safety. It didn't break...
Died. Jimmie Wilson, 46, one of baseball's topflight catchers, who rip-roared to fame with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Gas House Gang"; of a heart attack; in Bradenton, Fla., where he had retired to his fruit plantation. Wilson had a nightcap of glory in the 1940 World Series as coach of the Cincinnati Reds; at 40, he hauled on his catcher's harness, helped the Reds win the series victory...
...black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening...