Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Changing Name Sir: The writer who penned "Melting the Pot"[March 23] deserves plaudits for his definitive coverage of the commercial alter...
...symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common pot of conformism...
...which was added to a dossier on the restaurant that dates back to its opening in 1950. The Michelin inspectors are a kind of Palate Guard chosen for their iron digestions, sensitive palates and impeccable integrity. In keeping with the Guide's slogan. Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin (roughly, no pull, no payoffs), they arrive alone and unannounced, sample food and wine, reveal their identities only when they have finished eating and ask to inspect the kitchens. A Michelin inspector is usually treated as respectfully as an FBI man in the U.S., though one irate restaurateur...
...dollar by helping the U.S. to spend less and earn more abroad. Friendly foreign governments are proving to be receptive, if not out of gratitude for past favors, then out of hardheaded realization that the West's basic currency cannot be permitted to go to pot. A progress report from the many fronts in the gold battle...
Then at Jaipur, the First Lady was expected to throw a coin from her own country into a silver pot. Galbraith, said the columnist, had not informed Mrs. Kennedy of the local superstitions and was even caught without an American coin. Touring newswomen provided a quarter...