Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more slugs of Scotch, gin and beer ("I don't like the stuff, but it keeps me goin' "), and it was time for the second performance. Fats slipped on his four-carat diamond ring, sank a horseshoe-shaped diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted...
Whispering Campaign. An increasingly popular tactic among the pundits has been to quote Eisenhower speeches and extracts from the Republicans' 1952 and 1956 campaign platforms in an attempt to prove, as the New York Daily News's John ("Capitol Stuff") O'Donnell charged recently, that Ike has repudiated his promise to resist "socialist" spending. In fact, argues David Lawrence, Eisenhower -and the Republican platforms as well-coppered their campaign promises of Government economies with the qualification that none would be allowed at the expense of the defense program or vital domestic services...
...past 29 years "attending physician" to Congress, Dr. George Calver, 69, summed up the greatest heart-tiring hazards to his 531 charges: 1) constituents who ply their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard Dr. Calver said: "I have been known to make people stop speaking." His filibuster buster: he sends one of the orator's colleagues to deliver a casual warning: "Dr. Calver is watching you, and you're going...
...Stuff." In his spare time he hooks rugs ("It's therapeutic"), works on portraits of his 22 grandchildren, has designed banners for the university's schools and colleges. He has an enthusiasm for heraldry and quill pen writing, once spent hours designing a silver box for a waitress who was retiring from one of the residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly...
...Ford (Motor Co.) commercial, or tug tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country boy, and I'm not strictly pop," says Ernie. "You know I couldn't top Roy Acuff's Grand Ole Opry stuff, and I couldn't beat Como. So I mix 'em, and the people like it fine...