Word: potterism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland, facing heavy Democratic odds in his California gubernatorial campaign, said that the President and Adams "should carefully weigh as to whether Adams has so hurt his usefulness that it might be harmful." New Jersey's Robert Kean, Arizona's Barry Goldwater and Michigan's Charles Potter pounded the same drum: dump Sherman. Utah's venerable (72) Senator Arthur Watkins was the strongest voice of all. "In the light of the record as measured by the high standards of ethics set by both the President and Mr. Adams," said he, "there seems to be no other...
Delaware's hound's-tooth polisher, Republican John J. Williams, led a parade of five Republican Senators provisionally suggesting an Adams resignation. The other four: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Michigan's Charles Potter, Maryland's Glenn Beall, Minnesota's Ed Thye. California's Bill Knowland tagged along, intoning that "the facts should be completely disclosed...
...emphasis on speed and convenience has attracted millions of new customers. The oldtime mudpacks have been replaced by Pond's 37-second face cream; Mrs. Potter's walnut-juice stain, a turn-of-the-century hair dye, has given way to Roux's five-minute hair rinse. The squeeze bottle and the aerosol container have revolutionized the use of old products, led to new ones, e.g., hair spray, which has grown to an $84 million business in only seven years...
...tycoon in pottery, and Robert, a successful artist, are only a pair of sad dogs snarling for the same old bone, and barking up the wrong tree. Between the artist who sneers at "gobbets of bourgeois wisdom" and the businessman who is nothing but "a lousy provincial potter," it turns out to be fat, good-natured old Joe who achieves love, wisdom and an upbeat ending for good-natured young Novelist Wain...
Presbyterian's strong doubles teams provided the winning margin, as the singles were split evenly. Brownlow and Hoffman easily defeated Junta and Sears, 6-4, 6-2, and Potter and Shakespeare edged the Sophomore pair of Gallwey and Vinton...