Word: pretzeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence reluctantly ran for Governor because his feuding party could not agree on anyone else. He said. "I am not a candidate of my own choosing," but campaigned mightily and defeated a Republican pretzel manufacturer to become the state's first Roman Catholic Governor. Lawrence's term in the statehouse was less effective than his Pittsburgh mayoralty, but his powers in national party sanctums had never been greater...
...result may put pounds on the populace, but "It also means an astounding expansion for the snack industry, which last year accounted for almost $2 billion in sales of everything from potato chips to pretzels to pralines. Attracted by such growth, dozens of big companies have hastened to get in their licks. One such is the Borden Co., a conservative, 107-year-old dairy company that bought out Cracker Jack and a pretzel and corn-chip manufacturer as part of its diversification program. Last week, Borden's continued to nibble, announced that it will acquire the Wise Potato Chip...
...thinking pretzel...
That, as it turned out, was the closest anybody came to beating Palmer. More than any other top golfer, Palmer is a captive of his own emotions: when he feels good, he plays good-even if he does not look good doing it. He twists himself into a pretzel on the putting green. He almost falls down on the tee. He follows through-ah, but no matter! On the second day, Arnie showed up relaxed and smiling, and shot a 68 that gave him a four-stroke lead on the field and seven strokes on Nicklaus. "It's beginning...
...images that haunt Bacon haunt his viewers even more. Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations...