Word: parsley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel C. Butler, Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, Jesse W. Doolittle, Jr., Norman Gold, Allen Greenberg, John Kaplan, Andrew L. Kaufman, Joel Kozol, Stuart J. Land, Donald I. Laventhall, Keinard M. Leiman, Arnold Lozowick, Richard M. Markus, Richard P. McGrath, Bruce Nichols, William Nickols, John T. Noonan, William D. Parsley, Judson A. Parsons, Jr., Arnold I. Roth, Peter H. Schiff and Edward C. Stebbins...
...years ago were rotting on the ground for lack of buyers. Last week there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last year. OPS officials found that housewives were forced to pay 2? to 3? a lb. over ceiling, and sometimes to accept parsley and carrots in tie-in sales with their spuds. From Maine's Aroostook County came reports that potatoes were being shipped across the Canadian border, then shipped back into the U.S. as seed potatoes, on which there is no ceiling...
...practice, mostly in Los Angeles, Psychiatrist Fisher has come to this conclusion: "If you were to take the sum total of all the authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists . . . if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount." Undoing the Damage. Along the way, Dr. Fisher learned the happy knack of combining...
...once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers/ While the parsley was parceling the peas...
...average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani and drowned bathing at Cap d'Antibes one midnight) will know pretty well all there is to know about the average Whig county family...