Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain Pat...
...gift package of 60 items-Portuguese anchovies, Swiss candies, etc., stacked atop a barrel-based table-to 3½-oz. aerosol cans of cheese spread that sell for 59?. For the brave and the bold, there were the birds (tinned Japanese sparrows) and the bees (fried and tinned), rattlesnake paté, fried silkworms and chocolate-covered ants...
...come from billion-dollar General Foods Corp., which bit into the market last year with 53 packaged "gourmet" items, planning to sell them for prestige value alone. General Foods this year will add seven new luxuries, including bouillabaisse ($1.10), spiced Cherry Heering preserves ($1.25), Smithfield ham and cheese paté (70?), babas au rhum ($1.10). Nestlé will now have a big finger in the luxury pie, recently signed to sell Switzerland's famed Hero line of preserves...
...rules of retiring from high Administration office, Assistant Labor Secretary J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins should have dropped by the White House, received a pro forma pat on the back and presidential thanks for faithful performance. But Wilkins, due to retire for "reasons of health," last week riddled the ritual: no sooner had he got his backslap and thanks from Dwight Eisenhower than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with...
...under an alcohol rubdown, then slipped gratefully into bed. He was $3,140 richer for the flight ($1,000 of the money pledged to the Seventh-day Adventists) because properly proud Beech Aircraft had guaranteed $1,000 for his reaching Seattle and $10 for every mile beyond. But for Pat Boling there was a greater satisfaction. Said he: "Those were the best hours of my life. Everyone likes to see his plans come true...