Word: lobstering
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...York to dicker, featherbedding also became an issue. The New York publishers wanted to kill the costly "bogus rule"* that the I.T.U. had been writing into contracts for more than 40 years. At the New York Herald Tribune, the touchy bogus question brought trouble last week. When 30 lobster-shift (2 a.m. shift) printers defied the foreman and left work to check up on the backlog of bogus matter, they were fired. Later in the day, the union got them reinstated. But there was little doubt that the publishers' next campaign would be to eliminate the bogus rule...
...After a lobster fisherman found a 1748 Portuguese doubloon in the sand flats of New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, gold-hungry citizens swarmed over the spot by the hundreds, set to work with pails, rakes and shovels, found about 15 more coins before angry cottage-owners called the cops...
...Lobster. Last week, the royal scene was, as usual, pure pastel. Gustaf now spends most of his time at Drottningholm Castle, which stands on an island in a lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce...
...test was passed triumphantly by the professor himself. With hands, feet and neck specially protected, he was wheeled into the hotbox when its temperature stood at 230°. He stayed inside for 15½ minutes while the heat climbed to 262°. His face turned lobster-red when the hot air hit it, but that was about the only abnormal effect the heat had on the professor...
...Decatur House there was no music. But there was hot borsch, hot lobster pilaff, turkey and cheese sandwiches, orange sherbet, pastries and domestic champagne. No introductions were needed. It was a gathering of old friends...