Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able to run the Post Office with out a deficit...
...consumption in five years, making it Japan's third favorite sweet, after chocolates and caramels. No fewer than 43 manufacturers are turning out gamu, as it is called, and they have already popularized 150 flavors, including such tangy new taste sensations as green tea, gin fizz and pickled plum. In the interests of more mannerly mastication, the manufacturers have even prescribed a code of gummanship (cardinal rule: never chew when addressing your elders), plan to install 1,000 wad-disposal boxes in convenient public places, and have introduced an official gum chewers' anthem...
...Better." By half time, the Lions had scored every possible way but one. Plum took care of that in the third quarter: he booted a perfect, 47-yd. field goal that put Detroit in front, 26-0. After that, the stunned Packers slowly began to come alive, and scored twice, on an interception and a recovered fumble. But it was much too late, and the final score read Detroit 26, Green...
Another factor was that Loser Boeing could not poor-mouth very effectively. With its plum contracts involving the Minuteman missile, the Saturn booster and the modernization of older B-52s. Boeing has enough work to keep its Wichita plant going. Boeing has also developed the X20 Dyna-Soar, the first fully maneuverable spacecraft. If the Air Force wins its fight for a military role in space. Boeing's Dyna-Soar could supersede the TFX on some yonder tomorrow...
...Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, but what will become of their rivalry nobody is likely to know for years. Hemingway had no one dominant fan in life. After his death, a stampede of scholars for the right to use his private papers might have been expected. But the great plum was swiftly awarded by his widow to Princeton's Carlos Baker. As sure as footnotes are footnotes, Baker, now at work on a definitive biography, will be "the Hemingway...