Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candy, cattle feed and air conditioners, plastics and newspapers. The world's biggest producer of salt-and the source of nearly a third of the salt used for all purposes in the U.S.-is Chicago's Morton Salt Co., which is known to most Americans through its motto, "When it rains, it pours...
...first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half the blighters are pushing the car while the other half are pushing up the price...
Lazy Homes. A stern moralist of 46, Judge Stout totally embodies her mother's motto: "Make yourself useful." Raised in Oklahoma, she whipped into third grade at the age of six, later taught school and then earned law degrees at Indiana University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...
...pack resembles Pull Malt's, except that the Kiss of Death seal is a skull and crossbones and its motto in "A rose by any other name would small an sweet." One pack of Kiss of Deaths (or Kisses of Death) sells for 40 cents...
Bernard Asbell is a salesman for Progress. He believes that the "whole new thing happening in America" is a good thing that will get even better as soon as people learn to trust it. The "whole new thing" is automation, and the motto Asbell wants to inscribe over the escalator to the future is (freely rendered) "materialistic mind over matter...