Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some 300,000 Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved...
...Bigger Slice. In the depths of the Depression, when other businesses were going to pot, Keating streamlined his spatulas, basting spoons, kitchen strainers, etc. into atched sets with nine color combinations. Result: sales tripled. To boost his sales of knives, he put out sets of six or more in safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps...
After a series of lunches, Arthur lures Annabel to a cosy little supper at home while his wife is away on a trip. After a bit, he tips the coffee pot over Annabel's skirt. She whips it off and they dab de liriously at the affected parts. At this moment, the wife walks...
Politics is a muddy road full of pot-holes. It is fraught with frustration and despair. It demands equal discretion in choosing enemies as well as friends. It subjects a man to the taunts and arrows of malicious opponents. Even political success reaps its own bitter harvest--jealousy...
...State faced a wholesale boycott by parents who believed religion was as essential a part of an education as any of the three R's. They were seriously considering the advantages of parochial schools. So that public schools could hold their place as a meeting ground and a melting pot for children of all religions, nationalities, and classes, school officials decided to give parents a choice: they could send their children to religious schools during the "released" hour, or they could keep them in school...