Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams is so unlettered he doesn't know the rules, so innocent he cannot recognize a bribe, and so naive he figures the name of the Assistant to the President carries no influence, does he qualify for that position...
This long-experienced camp cook would like to know the Dulles' magic secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward-unaided by plumbing or electricity-the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands...
...market is cluttered with so many different styles that the homemakers often do not know what to buy. On the production level, there are some 4,000 different manufacturers, each with styles of his own. On the retail level, complains Executive Vice President Jim Best of the Southern Retail Furniture Association, there are many fast-buck artists who high-pressure consumers into buying furniture that does not suit their taste. Says Best: "The American housewife has lost her confidence in all but a few established furniture dealers. But she is still so confused with the wide choice that she often...
...Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations...
...another story. He makes love to the heroine, promises to marry her, but at the last minute casually breaks it off. "Mrs. Blair," he tells the mother without turning a hair, "I've been engaged to some girls, and not engaged to some girls, if you know what I mean. And some of them weren't the kind I'd 've taken to the country club. But with the exception of your daughter, all of them were white." The heroine tries to commit suicide; the lieutenant spends the rest of the picture trying to kill...