Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stores had heralded their generosity with corny ads, such as "Ties-a buck a throw" (accompanied by a picture of George Washington heaving a silver dollar across the Potomac). Most stores offered only a small number of real buys, used them as decoys to unload trade-ins, old models, other slow-moving stock. Even so, some merchants said that sales, as usual, were twice those of any other day in the year. The Mode men's shop reported it took in $8,500, triple usual sales. Nevertheless, Proprietor Walter Nordlinger viewed the whole affair darkly: "It's getting...
...Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
...occasion, routed a whole band of Indians by herself and two great big shepherd dogs," said he. "The women of this day & age have that same spirit." For the National Cartoonists Association, he debunked the old legend of George Washington's throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac. "It was a Spanish piece of eight," said Historian Truman, "and it was thrown across the Rappahannock . . . Any ten-year-old boy could throw a dime across at that place. But I am doubtful that Washington, with his acquisitive habits, would ever let loose of a Spanish piece of eight...
...left the political uproar behind as he crossed the Potomac for his conferences at the Pentagon. There all signs indicated that he was gravely preoccupied about the business of defending Europe: He needed a fighting army by 1952, and he had been getting only one-fifth of the heavy arms aid the U.S. had promised NATO's armies (see FOREIGN NEWS). But whether Ike had come home to talk Western defense or U.S. politics, or both, the U.S. was going to be looking his way for a lot of answers...
...early presidential press conference, According to Washington legend, was held involuntarily by John Quincy Adams. While swimming bare-buff in the Potomac, he was spied by an intrepid woman reporter, Anne Royall, who sat on his clothes on the bank and would not let him out until he had answered her questions...