Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five times the nation had responded by giving the Democrats the presidency. Now they faced a sixth test, which promised to be the sternest of all. Girding for the battle, 6,000 Democratic leaders assembled in Washington and paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...
...Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
Sirens moaned. Stoolpigeons were squeezed like grapefruit. No juice, no Willie. He was automatically suspected of pulling Boston's million-dollar Brink's, Inc. robbery in 1950. But, after two years had passed, many a bluecoat began to guess hopefully that the king of U.S. bank robbers must be dead. Then, one afternoon last week, an electrifying message clacked out on New York's police teletypes: Willie Sutton had just been arrested in Brooklyn...
...After he got into the N.A.A.C.P., he was ousted as a junior high-school principal and sent to a tiny three-teacher elementary school. But he was not fired. He prospered over the years, was able to buy a neat six-room house and a six-acre orange and grapefruit grove at Mims (pop. 1,081), an Indian. River fruit-packing town 45 miles from Daytona Beach...
...Manhattan, a $50 million super-shopping center on Long Island) have never left the drawing boards; building restrictions are now cramping his style. But Zeckendorf hopes to start at least the Manhattan shopping center soon. A few years ago, Zeckendorf used to say: "I like to make grapefruit out of lemons." Since then, his ideas have expanded somewhat. Says he nowadays: "I like to make bananas out of peanuts...