Word: plums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruits of Milton Eisenhower's recent tour of South America include at least one plum rather sour to Latin tastes. United States embassies throughout South and Central America have received notice that future money for loans to private industry must come more from commercial investors and less from the Government...
...gone, and Clara, the little daughter of the house, had sunk into a Christmas night dream, the grownups took over. In Act II came the company's stars, one after the other, to dance through Clara's dream. Among them were Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Nicholas Magallanes as her Cavalier, and Tanaquil LeClercq as the Dewdrop (Waltz of the Flowers}; Francisco Moncion undulated through an antic Arabian Dance...
...president of France's National Assembly sits high above the 627 deputies in a huge, brassbound armchair, and acts like the umpire at a political tennis match. Constitutionally, he ranks second only to the President of the Republic. Financially, his job is a choice plum: $15,000 a year, a black, six-cylinder Citroën and a chauffeur, a big apartment in the Palais Bourbon with Louis XV furniture, Sevres china, gold-plated silverware, even free gas and electricity...
With only 22 days left till Christmas and the holly already hung along Massachusotts Avenue, more than 800 students from abroad are silently wondering where they'll eat Christmas trukey and plum pudding...
...Incidentally, Texans don't agree with your contention that Oveta's appointment was a ... plum for the Texas people. Mrs. Hobby's appointment is a plum for Mrs. Hobby...