Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...
...Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
Newshawk Robert C. Albright, Washington Post, remembered that this was the last week of the tomato season. Everyone felt better. And now the familiar scene occurred again: in downtown Toledo, Wendell Willkie was welcomed screamingly, like a combination of Lincoln and Clark Gable, by another ecstatic, confetti-and-hurrah audience...
Night the exhibition opened, 1,000 Detroit socialites braved wintry winds to attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...
...London was A Kitchen Goes to War, ration-time cookery book designed to avoid waste, achieve "variety and a well-balanced diet." Some contributors: Viscountess Astor (Haddock Fin-landais); Sir Malcolm Campbell (How to Make the Best of Your Bacon Ration); Viscountess Halifax (Savoury Haddock); H. W. ("Bunny") Austin (Tomato and Asparagus Bundles); Sir Hugh Walpole