Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peso Sandwich. Chief outsider is Manuel P. Manahan, 41, an independent who has dedicated himself to carrying on Magsaysay's programs. He has made the most of a physical resemblance to his hero (he has even had his campaign pictures touched up to enhance the likeness), has had an amazingly warm reception in the barrios, which he has tramped indefatigably shaking hands and making friends with backwoods voters in the Magsaysay pattern. But without a machine of his own, he is conceded only an outsider's chance of upsetting the major candidates...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
...finished my sandwich and turned to go. He grabbed my arm and flung open his ledger...
...wages of sin. More precisely, something goes wrong from the beginning, and it is Actor Palance. This performer has made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case, if there is anything more depressing than Actor Palance...
...together''). At the last chords, they were five minutes over their scheduled time. "Late as usual," said Franz Allers, as everyone started for the door. "Thank you. Maestro," said a baritone, stuffing his score into a coat pocket. They rushed out together to bolt a sandwich before turning their attention from Puccini's Montmartre to Edwardian London and ''O, wouldn't it be loverly...