Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea sounded fine & dandy-like "two cars in every garage," or "a chicken in every pot." The President's Commission on Higher Education wanted U.S. colleges and universities to double their enrollments by 1960 (TIME, Dec. 29). But if 4,600,000 Americans were given a college education at the same time, how good an education would they...
...problems are varied and vexing. There is the human element: the smiling lady, who, for some mysterious, feminine reason, kept plugging Lipton's Tea as she brewed a pot of her sponsor's Tender Leaf. There are mechanical embarrassments, too: the Gillette razor that got stuck in the middle of a display of its , simple operation...
Chances are you'll never glimpse a boiled shirt on local ski slopes, but 3-minute sweatpants, dunked in a pot of wax and knife-edged beneath a mattress, may double as ski pants for the well-dressed fan of the near future...
Apparently Somoza was only trying to smoke out a plot that was being hatched across the border, but Arevalo had no intention of being used as a smudge pot. "Absolutely false," he replied coldly. Old Nicaraguan Rebel Emiliano Chamorro, who is now in Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...
Kick Over Every Pot. Lombardo ran a handkerchief-covered finger inside his sweaty collar. With a mocking smile, Party Leader Pietro Nenni handed him a glass of water. "You say that the Marshall Plan ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...