Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hello Ship," Jake Holman whispers reverently to the U.S.S. San Pablo the first time he reports aboard. His new Navy messmates fondly call their ship the "Sand Pebble," and come equipped with the kind of melting-pot surnames-like Stawski and Shanahan-preferred in U.S. service epics. The ship is on duty in the exotic China of 1925, when warlords pillaged the land and the Western powers protected their trading rights with garrisons and gunboats...
...Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, a New Jersey newspaperman's son whose bushy eyebrows, gravelly voice and mile-wide Irish grin lit up the screen in 57 films, most notably as the rollicking Gerald O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and the prototype of a rum-pot frontier doctor in Stagecoach; of cancer; in Hollywood...
Squares of cardboard are mounted on a battery-powered turntable inside a protective pot-shaped housing, the switch is turned on, and the cardboard begins to spin. With a special plastic spoon, colored plastic paints are dribbled on the spinning "canvas," and the results can range from wild abstractions to concentric geometric patterns. Kusa...
...best of this recollection begins with Lampedusa's description of the annual family removal from Palermo to the vast summer house at Santa Margherita Belice. The train ride seemed hot and endless to little Giuseppe. There were no toilets aboard; the family bought a cheap brown chamber pot for him, which was thrown out the window just before the end of the trip. The summer house was a vast affair that the author describes as "a kind of Vatican." There were 100 rooms, more or less; quarters for 30 guests and their servants, stables and coach houses, a private...
According to Charles P. Whitlock, former Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley, "Few people realize the strain that would be placed on the house system if there were no Dudley. If the University should over establish a co-ed House for commuters, [a pot project of Leighton's] it will be because of Leighton's interest in involving the commuter in college...