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Word: onions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuine article, too, peddling merchandise on the sidewalks: "Folks, I'm gonna show you the Morris Metric Slicer. Two dollars is the price on the box, but forget the two dollars. I'm talking about one dollar, and I'm throwing in the onion slicer and the juice extractor." When Ed talked, the folks listened. And when they listened, they usually bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcers: The Pitchman | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Mashed potatoes (whiter than Snow White claims to be) in a rosebud border, green (with envy because they never get top billing) sugar peas plus a fat and sassy mushroom or two, French fried onion rings that speak for themselves, and a chopped green salad for your vitamin quotient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Gourmetburger-embosomed with firm lush Bernaise [sic] sauce and necklaced with a Frenchly fried onion ring-garni of De Gaulle lemon slices-voil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a terrifying song about suicide written no doubt by Lennon. For all his self-parody in "Glass Onion" Lennon does handle images masterfully in this song to convey a real sense of personal anguish. He speaks of himself in the third person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beatles | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

...especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially on nights when the Oilers, say, had bombarded Onion Davis, the invincible lefthander of the Dothan Browns...

Author: By Paul Hemphill, | Title: 'Baseball Bums' and the Graceville Oilers | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

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