Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had no trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...youg rooks, one-half pound of steak, one ounce dripping, one half pint stock, one ounce flour, pepper and salt...
...talked politics? No, said Ike, defense plans. Would he run for President? "I wrote a letter and I meant every word of it," replied Ike. It was another "No"-but every time he said it, more & more Democrats hopefully interpreted it as "Maybe." Said Florida's Senator Claude Pepper: "He may be pulling the door a little closer to him, but I didn't hear the lock click...
...look like a rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
...pasilla, ½ Ib. of baked tomatoes, ½ Ib. of baked sesame seed, 2 oz. of shelled peanuts browned in fat, 2 slices of French bread browned in fat, 2 oz. of toasted pumpkin seeds, 3½ oz. of shelled toasted almonds, ½Ib. of chocolate,1 teaspoon of black pepper, 4 or 5 cloves, ½ oz. of raisins, one clove of roasted garlic, one roasted onion...