Word: peaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California court, Tyrus Raymond ("The Georgia Peach") Cobb, 68, always a crusty gamecock on the baseball diamond, faced a $50,000 personal injuries suit slapped on him by Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted...
...quilt. At night, while Jane lies sighing and stretching like a contented kitten, Clark gnaws happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree," she sings, "a growin' in the ground . . . And if he wants them peaches of mine He'll have to climb the tree...
...foolery, Pakistan last week effectively closed the historic Khyber Pass, through which passes 80% of Afghanistan's external trade, including shipments to the U.S. of pistachio nuts, wool, and karakul fur (which becomes "Persian lamb" on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue). At the pass, Pakistani customs stopped grape, peach and pomegranate-laden trucks and told them to await clearance from Karachi-which, they blandly confided, would "take some time." While the truckers fretted, the fruit rotted...
...Stop, was its most generally satisfactory play. If clearly small-scale work with a touch of formula about it, it made up in vividness and humor for what it lacked in originality and depth. Comedy otherwise was never more than spottily bright. Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach had engaging scenes but an eventual monotony, while a succession of Rainmakers and Reclining Figures rained too frequently or reclined too long...
Continuing Strike. Last week, despite the strike, a steady stream of artillery shells, precision instruments, pink washbasins and peach bathtubs flowed off the Kohler assembly lines. The company hinted that it had 3,000 men at work, as against 3,300 before the walkout, said it was operating at a profit. The union conceded that Kohler had 1,800 employees at work, but claimed that 2,800 of the 2,850 U.A.W. members who walked out last year were still holding out. The strike had already cost the union some $4,000,000 in benefits-$25 weekly to each striker...