Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight at the cornea. But the kids' enthusiasm has opened up the clubs to the Stooges, and the kids to the clubs. Most of the spots played by the Stooges have afternoon shows for children; one club offered the act at a junior charge of $1.50 (covering a sandwich and a bottle of pop), and in Philadelphia, marvels Moe, "people paid $3.75 for little kids' dinners so they could see us. Imagine nightclub matinees for kids...
...news of Africa has been largely written in conflict of black v. white. But a third group exists there-"the indigestible filling in the black-and-white sandwich," as it has been called. Africa's Asian minority poses problems of its own. They showed most plainly ten years ago in Durban, South Africa, when in the course of a minor scuffle an angry Indian merchant pushed an African boy's head through a shop window and gave him superficial cuts. Passersby spread the word exaggeratedly: an Indian has killed an African. That night Africans began attacking every Hindu...
Holiday & Amnesty. The day's ordeal had only just begun. The prince retired to change into white tie and tails and to grab a bite or two of a ham sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage...
...personal assistant Joseph N. Greene called the State Department, got a 15-minute briefing, passed it along to his boss. "Well," said Dulles at one briefing's end, "let's go for a swim." After an hour in the pool, Dulles was ready for a light lunch: sandwich, glass of high-protein milk...
...Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail for Hawaii in the brig Thaddeus...