Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collegiate authors are now assured of collecting clippings instead of rejection slips. The price is a pound of prestige and a pot of printed comments...
Republican mayors are a Philadelphia tradition, like scrapple and pepper pot. The tradition, unbroken since 1884, has been hard on Philadelphia. Corruption and civic stagnation have become chronic; as often as not, the city's mayors have been bumbling party hacks. But Philadelphia voters have been too apathetic to throw the rascals...
Disappearing Zanzibari. It was a close guess. The trek look a year and a half, much of it through an unexplored forest which rose "like a dark, dense colonnade." Pigmies assailed them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...
Strikers jammed the Zócalo under the office of District Governor Fernando Casas Alemán to protest the arrest of three union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...
...store. Living tastes and standards rose as many came to appreciate steak and an extra suit. With peace and reconversion, farmer, worker, and entrepreneur cemented their war-won gains of higher wages and profits, but the war-forged incentive to work hard and long naturally but unhappily vanished. The pot of gold seemed within easy reach...