Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some classes. Joan Baez, who has long been thought of as a sort of otherworldly beatnik because of her remote manner, long hair, bare feet and burlap wardrobe, actually felt distaste for these academic bums from the start. "They just lie in their pads, smoke pot, and do stupid things like that," she says...
...years that Michigan Democrats held the Governor's chair (twelve under ''Soapy" Williams, two under Swainson). Michigan's economy went to pot, largely as a result of political schizophrenia. On one side were the Democrats, monolithically supported by the United Auto Workers and other unions. On the other side was the rural-dominated state legislature, a kind of feudal barony perpetuated by malapportionment and chartered by an antiquated state constitution. Over the years, the bickering and battling between the two sides put Michigan $85.6 million into debt. Auto companies began building new assembly plants in other...
Night Life, by Sidney Kingsley, contends that people are selling their souls for a mess of pottage, which the playwright exchanges for a pot of message. Having bemoaned the decline of love, honor, courage, idealism and even healthy humor, a leading character announces, "The poets have given up on mankind...
...process, a water-cooled, 30-ft.-long steel lance is lowered through the top of the furnace, like a narrow straw into a thick-walled cream pot, and sprays compressed oxygen at supersonic speeds over the bubbling mix. With a roar that would drown out a brace of jet fighters, the oxygen burns off the sulphur, carbon and other impurities in the white mass. Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel. Production costs...
...know what Lloyd's going rates are, but Paul Ford ought to insure his stomach for about twice as much as Marlene has coming to her if her legs get scratched. Ford has the most eloquent pot in show business, and it'd help me unwind a whole lot quicker in the evenings if I knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant...