Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Korea's last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans. He had also learned the wisdom of the Korean proverb, "When whales fight, shrimp are eaten...
There were no cots in the cloakrooms, no pajama-clad Senators rubbing sleep from their eyes as quorum bells clanged in the middle of the night, no filibustering recitals of recipes for chicken gumbo and shrimp jambalaya. There was just a straightforward, rather lackluster debate that was cut off after a mere 24 days when the Senate invoked cloture. Next day, when President Johnson's voting-rights bill came to a final vote, the Senate approved it by a lopsided 77-to-19 margin and sent it to the House, where its passage is all but a foregone conclusion...
...water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...where sales are rated above profits, that's not business-that's bureaucracy." To help reach its profit goal, Du Pont is capable of counting its pennies very closely: a few years back, it even adopted a cost-squeezing suggestion to remove the lemon wedges from the shrimp cocktails served at the company-owned Hotel Du Pont. Saving: $200 a year...
...religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights in Israel on Saturdays or religious holidays, and its galleys may serve only kosher food, a puzzlement to Gentile passengers, who find they must drink their coffee black after a meal of meat or chicken. Dr. Nissim recently earned considerable unpopularity...