Word: grapefruit
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...make the going pleasanter, the Met will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio...
...lunch at the White House. Clint Anderson, who has sat in many a stud poker hand with Harry Truman, expected a friendly dressing down for going too far. Instead, the President said: "Clint, how would you like to be Secretary of Agriculture?" Said Anderson, later: "I almost swallowed my grapefruit...
...same hurricane leveled many a Florida citrus grove. Shipments of Florida oranges will be cut 20%, grapefruit, 43%. There were few lemons in the Eastern U.S. food markets...
...descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
...given a scroll by vinegary Lieut. General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many an extra jeep mile to get to plumbing, often brushed her teeth with canned grapefruit juice, washed her underwear in a helmet, herself in leftover...