Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit Lions will finish fourth, because Milt Plum is an erratic quarter-back and the defensive secondary is being rebuilt. Los Angeles, with a number of good young players such as Bill Munson, Merlin McNeever, Brave Jones, and Merlin Olsen will be tough, but they need one more year of experience, to be gotten in fifth place...
...incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...annals of crime, and Van Heflin is solid as the vengeful detective who turns out to have heart. But Thiefs best value is in the minor roles: John Davis Chandler, an ash-blond menace with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement when her father won't let her dry the dishes-and of cheerful chuckles when...
...festive rights following the official ceremonies became so excessive that the Board of Overseers made frequent but always unsuccessful attempts to curb Commencement behavior, even to the extent of banning "plum cake," which the Overseers observed, was never served in European universities...
...million-a-year tourist trade. The cost of living, up 19% last year, spiraled another 9% in 1965's first quarter. The hardest hit was food, which has risen an average 30% in the past year; such items as beef, pork, apples, potatoes and top-quality slivovitz (plum brandy) have jumped between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third (to an average $53 monthly), many people have to moonlight to make ends meet. The latest tale wagging around Belgrade's coffeehouses has a teacher asking...