Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have always been a political mercenary!" cried Deputy Oscar Nájera Farfán to Deputy José Garcia Bauer in Guatemala's Constituent Assembly. "At least I am not the night chamber pot of politics!" retorted Garcia Bauer. "O piece of excrement, follow me out of this room!" thundered Nájera Farfán. In the tussle that followed, Nájera Farfán landed a solid right hook to Garcia Bauer's ear before other deputies pulled them apart...
...Bowl Is Pot. More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing...
...that e is a vowel that is sometimes long and sometimes short, and that tie is a syllable that is pronounced tul would be to confuse him hopelessly. Far better at first, say the experts, is simply to teach him kettle-even though he may sometimes call the kettle pot...
...chief executive officer of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. to succeed Harry B. Higgins, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Clarence M. Brown. A native of Pittsburgh and Cornell graduate ('24), Hill went to work for Pittsburgh Plate when it was changing from old-fashioned pot-casting to continuous tank methods. As general superintendent, he helped develop such new products as laminated glass, climbed steadily to glass-manufacturing vice president...
Band of Angels, by Robert Penn Warren, one of the most critically overrated novels of the year, kept the Civil War pot boiling with blood, sex, sweat and crocodile tears...