Word: tomato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lemon that has been squeezed is generally regarded as garbage. Not so in Hollywood. There the discarded lemon can be stuffed with colorful yegg and luscious tomato, wrapped in the right sort of cabbage, and served to the public as something called a rehash...
...fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...Chips. "Bar BQ" potato chips coated with a spicy tomato-paste sauce have been put on the market by Frito of New York, Inc. and the Lay Potato Chip Co., Atlanta. Price: 29? for a 3½-oz. package. For quick snacks, George A. Hormel & Co. has put on sale precooked pieces of ham wrapped in egg and breadcrumb mix and fastened on a stick. Price: 59? for a box of eight...
...either party can approach his record of work in the 1954 campaign. By Election Day, Nixon will have covered more than 25,000 miles, to make more than 200 speeches in 31 states (not counting revisits). On tour he subsists mostly on tomato soup, milk and hamburgers, drives himself unmercifully 16 to 20 hours a day. The pace has melted fat off his middle and flattened his chipmunky cheeks. Last week the youthful Old Pro was off again in his chartered Convair on his fourth and final cross-country swing of the 1954 campaign...
Four teen-age Watertown boys eventually confessed to the politically unsubsidized tomato-tossing, but by that time Averell Harriman had again enraged Ives. To avoid conflict with the Jewish holidays, New York's registration had been split into two periods. This device has been employed by Democratic state administrations in the past, but Harriman read into it a diabolical scheme this year to confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they...