Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coffee houses. Besides an old stove and some silexes, the Capriccio boasts an expresso steam percolator for its Italian coffee. As Wilson watched his brew jet out of this continental loking apparatus, and surveyed his bubbling silexes, he noted that up the street they run everything through one old pot...
...Rockefeller Center office, Coulter confided: "I enjoy living here. It would be a hardship to live anywhere else." Why, then, his disparaging article? "This is rather embarrassing," said he. "The piece was intended for British consumption. People without skills who think of coming to America to find the pot of gold should be discouraged." The U.S., in short, is a nice place to live but no place for People people to visit...
...that although the United States boasts about its free press, "our press has bowed to an edict." "Nothing this ambiguity, "the rest of the world asks 'who are you to talk about the press of other countries?' From their point of view it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black," he added...
...political pot was bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle. The basic ingredient was the Administration's record peacetime $71.8 billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made...
...hard-headed even when hard up. Even "Big Bill" Haywood's I.W.W. was "practical" in its own simpleminded, bloody-minded way. Author Draper never loses sight of the fact that early capitalism cooked a brutal brew, but his is the story of the witches who danced around the pot. None of them could evoke the genie of modern Communism from the old mixture of immigrant theorizing and native radical cussedness. It took two world events and a crowd of lesser demiurges...