Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breaking Point. In Manhattan, Morton Krouse filed suit for the return of 46 pennies he had dropped in subway vending machines since Sept. 28 without receiving a single peanut...
...eight o'clock in the morning we entered the offices of the Central Committee. I glanced at my fellow guests. Smirking with satisfaction, drooling with superiority, a look of pre-eminence over all other mortals . . . plastered on their faces, they might have been entering Paradise . . . Suddenly a peanut-shaped head, surmounted by a military haircut and decked off with a magnificent pair of long moustaches, rose above them . . . one hand slipped into his overcoat and the other folded behind him, a la Napoleon . . . Comrade Stalin stood posed before the saints and worshippers...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
When Maestro Toscanini scooted onstage, music-lovers in the peanut galleries leaned over the rails to hiss the buzz-buzz in the parquet into silence. Then, in the still, warm, muggy air (two women in the crowded audience fainted), they listened for three hours to the romantic music of Poet-Musician Arrigo Boito, whom all Milan was honoring on the 30th anniversary of his death...
...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...