Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning out the tight little oligarchy that had run the country for decades, Peruvians had swung left. But President Bustamante ("a short, careful step is better than a brilliant, audacious hop") was a moderate. Even Lima's El Comercio, organ of the powerful reactionary Miró Quesada family, hailed him as a "gentleman highly regarded by everybody and without enemies or opposition...
Beatrice Lillie, before flying back tc Britain after a season on Broadway, told Manhattan reporters that Information, Please experts would hop to Europe this week and that she would guestpert for them in Paris about July 1. Clifton Fadiman, F.P.A. and John Kieran were surprised to learn where they were going...
...would temporarily be out in front of its U.S. rivals. The Shetlands, slightly smaller but faster than the Martin "Mars," would be the most de luxe planes ever to cross the Atlantic. Each will carry 70 passengers, will have a cozy cocktail lounge and comfortable berths for the overnight hop to London...
...pound of pure opium ("hop"), which used to cost $75 in the U.S. underworld, now brings as much as $700. The price of pure heroin ("aitch") has gone up from $60 an ounce...
...Nazis also cluck haughtily over pictures of a U.S. Congressman playing a guitar on the Capitol steps, of Hedda Hopper hats, of American adolescents doing the Lindy Hop as samples of "degenerate" life in a democracy...