Word: pea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...NUCLEAR REACTOR that may make atomic power competitive with conventionally generated electricity will be built by Martin Co. under an $838,163 AEC contract. Reactor system uses pea-sized pellets of atomic fuel, eliminates the need for complex control rods used in present reactors, makes it easier to recover valuable fissionable material from the reactor...
Once Upon a Mattress. Fun and frolic with the princess and the pea...
...will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen's under-the-mattress pea with a few extra props (a mandolin, a spiked orb, a lobster...
...George Abbott sets a pace that is nimble without being frantic. Occasionally, Mattress' comic reach exceeds its grasp and good taste e.g., a scene in which the mute king tries to mime the facts of life for his son. But when the evil queen finally brings the fabled pea to her lips in a dice player's frenzied kiss, it is an unconscious reminder of how much of the evening is a delightful streak of playgoing luck...