Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever so decked out in satinstriped wallpaper, No. 10 Downing Street is still home to Gladys Mary Wilson, 48. The new P.M.'s wife has moved in her washing machine and drying rack ("I couldn't quite see myself hanging out the washing") and dismissed the cook, being a whiz herself at smoked haddock, custard, and those parched tea dainties known hopefully by the British as "little fairy cakes." Harold smothers everything else in steak sauce, and the Government Hospitality Service takes care of banquets. It was frightfully pleb to the ex-cook, Alice Green. "I would have...
...familiar patterns are ob- literated-and Johnson's triumph was achieved by smashing across regional, economic and ideological lines that had long held firm for the G.O.P. At the same time, he drew massive support from all of the traditional Democratic voting blocs and metropolitan machines to rack up huge pluralities in the big cities...
...young pipe fitter who figured himself "good enough to play Triple A ball, nothing more." The Bauers' neat grey-brick house in suburban Prairie Village is stocked with the usual mementos of Hank's playing career: bronze-dipped spikes and gloves, plaques, pictures, and a rack of nine shiny black World Series bats, one for each of Hank's years as a member of the champion Yankees. But it is also a repository for athletic equipment of a more humble nature. There are the gloves and bats that belong to Hank Bauer Jr., 13, slugging first baseman...
...ultimate in Bowser baggery may have occurred at Ernie's, when six fashionable San Franciscans ordered a rack of lamb, then got so thoroughly marinated in martinis that they couldn't eat the meat. Home with the host went the entire roast, with all its trimmings, foil-wrapped on a silver salver...
...simplest outdoor grills ever devised is offered by Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $7.95. Folded it looks like a collapsed knapsack, and unfolded like a square wastebasket with a metal rack perched on top. It cooks a steak in six minutes and uses the most plentiful fuel in the land - old news papers, four sheets to a sirloin...