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Word: pecans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some real bad characters around here." All the president's visitors have their pictures taken by the White House photographers, and Ford makes sure that they all get copies. The president's usual lunch, we learn, is cottage cheese drenched in A-1 sauce, with butter pecan ice cream on the side...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: How Dumb Is Gerry Ford? | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...Hunt moved into the big leagues; he struck a hard bargain with legendary Wildcatter Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, an amiable man with a poor head for figures, and gained control of a vast newly discovered oilfield in East Texas. From then on Hunt expanded his business interests to include pecan growing, asphalt production and H.L.H. products, which marketed a big line of food items. At one point it was estimated that he personally earned $1 million a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Just a Country Boy | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

Besides daily doses of classical guitar, folk, jazz and chamber music, owner Milt James has put together a better than typical cafe menu; some hefty slices of banana and pecan bread are the most memorable dishes...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Cambridge Reflections | 11/8/1974 | See Source »

Ford's favorite dessert is pecan ice cream with fresh peach slices that Haller likes to marinate in Grand Marnier. For the President there are no seconds, except on salads, for which he has a consuming passion, particularly when they are perked up with finely chopped onion-whose breathy aroma is not likely to promote many postprandial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Ford Fare | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...from 10% to 50% of his land (depending on "what creates the most advantageous site") as permanent open space. In this way, almost 30% of the land will be preserved. It is one of the best conservation ideas since cluster planning; it also sells as easily as, well, butter-pecan ice cream. Some 475 plots have already gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Butter-Pecan Builder | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

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