Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonstop Munching. McDonald's statistical accomplishments are staggering. To illustrate: if all the 12 billion McDonald's hamburgers sold to date were to be stacked into one pile, they would form a pyramid 783 times the size of the one erected by Snefru. If a man ate a McDonald's hamburger every five minutes, it would take him 114,000 years of nonstop munching to consume 12 billion burgers. If all the cattle that have ever laid down their lives for McDonald's were to be resurrected for a reunion, they would stand flank-by-jowl...
Statistics alone cannot adequately measure the impact of McDonald's on U.S. life. The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the McDonald's jingle, You Deserve a Break Today, almost as familiar as The Star-Spangled Banner. But the chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, premeasured, superclean production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food...
...Coke at Wimbledon last year, and it has been a steady match ever since. Though their practice sessions invariably attract a fenceful of admiring fans, they some times end their workouts with some un abashed on-court smooching. An evening date usually consists of a movie and a McDonald's cheeseburger. Recently Chrissie won a major concession from her strict parents: her 11 p.m. cur few was moved back to midnight...
Yesterday's contest was marred by numerous mishaps caused by the constant rain. The 120-yd. hurdles were run with Yale's Steve McDonald apparently winning, but officials discovered that the hurdles had been set up wrong and that the race had to be repeated. On the second running. Harvard's Sam Butler came in first...
...look like a beagle. While it seems self-evident that the city of Cambridge is a Galapagos for humans, I am still left with the word "Archipelago." Until I find a dictionary that defines Archipelago, I will continue to assume that it refers to a close conglomeration of McDonald's Hamburger restaurants along a highway in the Southwestern part of the United States, most likely Los Angeles...