Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dewey, who tried and lost for the G.O.P. in 1944 and 1948, described last week how he feels as he watches the party's 1952 models go by. Said Dewey, as he introduced Candidate Earl Warren (Dewey's 1948 vice-presidential running mate) at a $100-a-plate Manhattan Republican dinner...
...recaptured is a lush green tropical treasure island, producing record amounts of sugar and an annual governmental income of some $350 million. Its exuberant Havana is one of the world's fabled fleshpots. The whole world dances to its sexy rumbas and mambos. Its socialites dine off gold plate, and its sumptuous casinos are snowed under by the pesos of sugar-rich playboys. The "dance of the millions" that Cuba knew in its brief post-World War I sugar boom is going again full blast. Batista brought off his coup at the top of Cuba's market...
This week the President will cash his chips and fly home to move from Blair House back into the renovated White House. First stop on the postvacation schedule: the big $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington, March...
...dismissed them as poorest scuttlebutt, and privately combed the ship's company for the robbers. Finally Rear Admiral A. K. Doyle, red-faced, made public the bluejackets' story. The mighty 45,000-ton Midway, protected by 137 planes, 180 guns and thousands of tons of steel armor-plate, had been taken from the inside. Nobody knew who the three robbers were or where the $3,000 had gone...
...look of a happy, well-fed burgomaster. " paint when I feel like it," he says. "I think pleasantly about a picture for a week sometimes, and then do it on the afternoon of the seventh day." He uses anything for a palette-a table, a folded newspaper or a plate. He mixes oil and water colors according to whim. "The purpose of art," says he, "is to console and amuse-myself, and I hope, others...