Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story "Lemon-Aid, Nader Style" [Feb. 8] there is a reference to Road & Track publishing a story of a man's 14-month diary of his "lemon...
While a secretary sprayed the room with a lemon-scented aerosol bomb, police and firemen ejected the intruders. Outside the palace, a Liège farmer, who felt that the ministers had not been sufficiently cowed, lamented: "My only regret is that we didn't bring along a bull...
...leaves one with the overpowering image of a very eccentric, very competent, and very unselfconscious lady. She wipes up the debris scattered on her carving board after ten minutes of mushroom fluting, and a moment later the same towel is declared "impeccably clean," and suitable for use as a lemon strainer. She casually plops a dropped chicken back into a casserole, saying, "The guests will never know." And refined as her rapid-fire method of onion chopping may be, it is hard to watch her in action without fearing for her fingertips...
...consumer, Ralph Nader is deluged weekly with letters complaining about a wide variety of goods and services. Because Nader won his early reputation as an auto critic, hundreds of the letters concern defective U.S. and foreign cars. Nader carries on a particularly lively correspondence with owners of lemons-new cars in which everything seems to go wrong. Now he and two associates, Lawyer Lowell Dodge and Engineer Ralf Hotchkiss, have drawn heavily on those letters to write a book, What to do with your bad car / An action manual for lemon owners. The book, which came out last week...
...doing close to $3,000 business a week in items like Quince Seed Conditioner ($3), Papaya Night Cream ($9.50) and Wild Raisin Eye Shadow ($5). Co-Owners Sandy Oringer and Lois Muller started out with a mailorder offer-$2 for a jar of strawberry cleansing cream, grapefruit freshener and lemon moisturizer-that drew such response that they formulated an entire line of raw-juice and oil-based cosmetics and found a chemist to put it together...