Word: plums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia University was looking for a new president to succeed retired 84-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler. The job, reported to pay $25,000 a year, is the ripest education plum in the U.S. And Sproul let it be known that he was considering a big offer...
Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam...
Christmas trees were sparse in London (those with a diameter of more than 2¼ inches rated as timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...
...Fred Ellis, who replaced veteran coach Lew Manley as mentor of the Jumbos this year, announced recently that he is pointing his charges for each contest as it comes, and it is an open secret around the Hub that a victory over the Crimson would be an especially tasty plum for the Tufts trophy board...
According to the most coherent (or least sensational) report, Tito's mystery began in the village of Kmrovec, Klanjec county, on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Klanjec is situated in a region famed chiefly for plump wheat, fat geese, burgeoning plum trees (essential to the manufacture of rakija, Tito's favorite drink), and a sprinkling of minor middle-class watering places (where, presumably, Tito got his first glimpse of the class enemy...