Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political skills that are universal and unisexual. Downplaying the feminist issue and opposing abortion, she was sometimes called "Ella fella." Scoring heavily throughout the state, she defeated her G.O.P. opponent, Congressman Robert Steele, 631,382 to 431,142. "In Connecticut," she explains, "I'm just an old shoe...
...white container made by the American Can Co. for the now defunct Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark-experts estimate that as many as 12,000 domestic beer labels have been turned out since then. They include such obsolete brands as Cloud Nine, Simon Pure, Nu Deal, Wooden Shoe, Tube City and King Snedley...
Shortly after Ford moved into the White House he went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet found out that he is completely above the humdrum routines of daily existence...
...monstrous machine that has grown up around the White House is frequently idiotic and it will cut a President off from the real world if he does not fight it tooth and claw. It is little things like shoe trees and water pitchers that keep a President anchored to the ground on which the rest of the people walk. They are the tiny nerve ends of judgment. If enough of them are dulled from nonuse, a President can slip into narcosis...
...nonpareil; of cancer of the esophagus; in Manhattan. Sullivan began as a sportswriter in the 1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished by millions of fans; their loyalty kept it on the air until 1971. Sullivan's bashful, stiff-necked, tongue-tied...