Word: plums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debates, where he starred, he occasionally turned a handstand on the speaker's rostrum. He celebrated his 21st birthday by hiring a barge and floating a party down the Isis. Oxonians were both so outraged and fascinated by his eccentricities that they burned him in effigy-in a plum-colored suit. In mocking outrage, Tynan got a car and drove headlong through the bonfire...
...Operations Administrator Harold Stassen hustled up to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to put across the point that he had been a very good boy indeed. He had stuck his thumb into world economic problems at the London conference (Britain, France, the U.S.) last fortnight, and the plum he was holding up for the Senators to see was a U.S. decision to go along with an expansion of trade in "nonstrategic" items between the West and Russia...
...front, the Senators would probably have understood him better. But when he implied that the new trade might soften the heart of Communism-i.e., that Russia makes guns only because she has no channels for peaceful trade with the West-then Stassen was clearly all thumb and no plum...
...Plum Conoisseurs...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...