Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no doubt that Farouk is intelligent and energetic. Every morning (after breakfasting on a bowl of porridge, five or six eggs, a plate of beans and a pot of coffee) he begins poring over a mass of reports sent him by his special agents in every branch of the government. He updates himself with the latest press clippings, telegrams and diplomatic reports. From then on, he keeps his staff hopping most of the day. He has a quick mind, reads widely, can tell racy stories or discuss foreign policy in seven languages...
Poker-faced Leo M. Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...
Cyanide in the Soup. The major liked minestrone. On the night of Dec. 6, Tozzini fixed a big pot of the soup. Holohan sat down with his back to the stove, and Manini slipped potassium cyanide into Holohan's bowl. Holohan took a few spoonfuls. The soup burned, he said. The major doggedly ate on, said that he felt sick, and reeled upstairs to vomit...
...sirs, your error is almost as bad as making tea without warming the pot first, or expecting the beer here to be cold...
...subscribed during his year at austere St. Paul's School. At Harvard, he studied Joseph Pulitzer's sensational New York World, sold ads for the Lampoon-and still had time for pranks. His most elaborate one was his last: he sent each of his professors a chamber pot for Christmas 1885, and was promptly expelled. He had lost interest in school anyway; he had his eye on the puny San Francisco Examiner, which his politicking father had taken over to get himself a Democratic party mouthpiece. One day Willie wrote his dad, newly appointed to the U.S. Senate...