Word: tab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tab?" countered he. We didn't know for certain what it was, but we maintained a bold face and returned quicklike, "Too much trouble." He seemed slightly disconcerted, but continued pluckily, "As a newspaperman," (we smirked nervously) "you must be sensitive to the things that other people wear." We began to titter uncontrollably but he went on: "What are the pace-setters wearing...
...successor to igss's winner, Joe Moore of Tennessee (TIME, Oct. 24. 1955). This week, in celebration, Patrick's Brooks County farmer friends held a giant barbecue for him (6,000 chickens, i.ooo pecan pies). The Ford Motor Co. got into the act, picked up the food tab. gave Patrick one of its new combination pickup truck and passenger cars which the company will start producing for the farm trade next month...
...watchers in Philadelphia. Such is the sorry state of the regular G.O.P. organization that it could not even produce 100 ushers for Vice President Richard Nixon's Philadelphia speech early this month. (The Citizens for Eisenhower finally rounded up the volunteer ushers, picked up the radio and television tab, turned the affair into a success...
...reason that it would put him in an inferior position, beneath the bulk of the mighty Soviet and Chinese members, and ruin his relations with the West. But a new Communist International in which all the satellite countries were autonomous would give Tito a powerful seniority, perhaps even tab him as political and ideological straw boss of some of the European satellites, and at the same time provide an excuse for Khrushchev to crush the opposition faction. Properly done to emphasize Tito's strength and independence, this might conceivably even please the West...
Lost Condiment. In London, forcibly detained in a restaurant for refusing to pay a $4.25 tab, James O'Brien won $14 for unlawful imprisonment after he explained that he withheld payment because no onions were served with his curry...