Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After eight hours of sampling, the judges settled on a simple dish: dilly casserole bread. To homey, 56-year-old Mrs. Leona Schnuelle, Crab Orchard, Neb., went the $25,000 first prize. A veteran contestant, Mrs. Schnuelle has won such prizes as $500 (for judging cattle), a trip to Florida, an assortment of appliances and furniture. She tried nine times before she won the bakeoff...
Nixon makes speeches that are longer and more leisurely-but no marathons. To a standard, pretested speech, Nixon adds a few fresh, homey touches and local references, culled from his information-crammed notebooks on every campaign stop. He bears down heavily on patriotism, and, growing solemn, flatters his audiences by talking seriously to them. One favorite technique is to read a letter from a local partisan. In a Flint, Mich, parking lot last week, the letter was from Linda McGrain, 13, who wanted one of the Nixon family's new kittens. She would get her wish, said Nixon with...
...other, depicting an athlete who has fought his last battle and is dying, has the face of Hayes himself. The house has a figure 6-shaped swimming pool half inside the living room, lights that go on and off at the command of Hayes's voice, and such homey essentials as faucets that dispense Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. Says...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Tom Clark said the court was in effect telling the railroads they must first go to the unions before abolishing surplus jobs. "Everyone knows what the answer will be," complained Clark, and quoted some homey doggerel to make his point. "It is like the suitor who, when proposing to a young lady, was told by her to go to father...
...some U.S. admen with a happy ignorance of today's welfare-state Britain but against a transplanted. British-born adman who knows very well what he is up to. David Ogilvy. president of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, creator of the bearded snobbery of the Schweppes tonic ads and the homey British Travel Association campaign, thinks the Economist's criticism is true, but irrelevant. "I agree with every word of it." he says, "but the number of travelers visiting Britain has quadrupled since our campaign began...