Word: salads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dates are imported to help with meals and battle with the ancient gass stove. Although Peach House boasts only two experienced cooks, disasters are rare. The most dramatic mistake so far occurred when a pot of socks and soapy water fell on elaborate cherry salad...
...White House Adlai Stevenson got his Cabinet lunch (chicken livers, mushrooms & bacon, jellied pineapple salad and canteloupe à la mode) and more than an hour's powwow with Harry Truman and Vice Presidential Nominee John Sparkman concerning campaign plans. He also got a 20-minute intelligence briefing on the Korean war and the international situation in general. Present at the briefing, by order of Harry Truman, were C.I.A. Director General Walter Bedell Smith and General of the Army Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...time displaying his talent for creating minor disasters. He gestured with his hat, and promptly had it nailed to the wall by a busy carpenter; he scalped another teacher's toupee with his fork in a cafeteria, prepared to eat it, mumbling "I didn't order a salad." His most recent catastrophe: while manfully trying to retrieve a basketball, he falls into the hoop and gets wedged fast...
...found comparative quiet; newly redecorated, this floor was reserved for the Eisenhower party and guarded by two burly cops from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. For lunch, the Eisenhowers went down one floor to the apartment of Hotel Manager Mike Biggs and his wife Eulalia. They hurried through fruit salad, stewed chicken, peas, mashed potatoes and a dish of pineapple sherbert. Then Ike and Mamie climbed out on the top of the hotel marquee to join the political brass in a review of the Ike homecoming parade...
Haitians are infinitely queer Say the Americans, with a jeer. They eat their salad before their meat And refuse the salty in favor...