Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good things sent in plenty from heaven above but niggled into pigeon holes by charity charlies with scrag-end notions of that arithmetical dead loss and bad debt...
...biggest newcomer, Giant Step (Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.), will broaden the financial horizon for young people (ages 7-17) with vast knowledge. Top prize: a four-year scholarship to a college of the contestant's choice and, as a plum for graduating seniors, a junket around the world...
...rarely popular, but reputable makers and marketers of foods and drugs are deeply grateful to FDA for bringing peace and order to a once chaotic business. Its top job has traditionally gone to career men, and industry has violently opposed any attempt by politicians to make it a patronage plum. Current FDA boss is George P. Larrick, 54, who entered the service as an inspector, was promoted to the commissionership...
Taxiing closer to a prize plum-the New York-Moscow air route-topflight executives of Pan American World Airways last week applied for Soviet visas, expect to be dickering soon in the U.S.S.R. for landing rights. President Juan Terry Trippe is to head the five-man mission to Moscow. For weeks, Pan Am brass has been huddling with Soviet diplomats in Washington, biting away at technical questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited...
...Karman smoked powerful cigars until the doctors made him stop, and his ability to drink without apparent effect is much admired by colleagues. Slivovitz (plum brandy) plays an essential part in his scientific reasoning. "First," explains a colleague, "comes the articulation of the problem, then the complexities of it, then disagreements, then Slivovitz...