Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Towns and people that you mentioned in Julia Child's article are "popcorn eaters" compared with San Franciscans, who were completely omitted. At least we don't have to write East for any food or gourmet cooking utensil. We have the best right here, be it shallots, baby veal, limestone lettuce or basin an blanc bowls, all at non-inflated prices...
...Including power tools, die presses, diesel engines, certain metals and industrial chemicals-as well as corset stays and hog troughs, firemen's hats and bathtub stoppers, arsenic and lace, popcorn and canned hominy...
...went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...
...suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division 93, as McCoy's Navy is known officially, is one of the most valuable units in the South China Sea. It serves as the seagoing artillery of the South Vietnamese army...
...reason for the raid was simple. He had "loaned" Radio City's transmitter to its owner, Reginald Calvert, 37, a sometime hairdresser, clarinetist, popcorn manufacturer and promoter, and Calvert was planning to sell the whole station to a syndicate. Smedley had no way of suing, since Radio City was located twelve miles out in international waters for the express purpose of avoiding British jurisdiction. Smedley figured, as he later told police, that "possession is ten-tenths...