Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taste of Lemon. The flaw in all the research was that by 1957, when Edsel appeared, the bloom was gone from the medium-priced field, and a new boom was starting in the compact field, an area the Edsel research had overlooked completely. Edsel's styling, in particular the grille, which resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon, was not much help, even after the lemon was removed. In its first six months Edsel made 54,600 cars, and then went steadily downward: 26,500 cars in 1958, fewer than 30,000 cars so far in boom-time...
Born in David City, Neb., Hallmark's Hall started work at the age of nine selling lemon-extract perfume to help support his mother, worked on through high school selling postcards and helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back...
Explorer V. In Fort Worth, Lucille Bridges won the title of "Fountaineer of '59" after she mixed a concoction of vanilla ice cream, pecans, whipped cream, cherries, pretzels and a sugar cube soaked in lemon extract, set it afire, called it a "satellite sundae...
...with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
...confession" for a Dublin Sunday newspaper. "I'm neither dead, dying, drunk nor dotty," wrote he. ". . . It is true, however, that I am an alcoholic." Why does he tipple? "First, because I like the stuff. Secondly, because I like company, and thirdly, because a pint of orange or lemon juice is twice the price of a pint of stout...