Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
...they hit that tomato juice when they've got a head on," a shrewd young thing observed...
...worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...
...Tempest," "King Lear," the bridal suite "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the dining room "As You Like It," and the bar "Measure for Measure." As the largest hotel in town, the Shakespeare entertains enough Americans to have become one of the few English hostelries where guests can get tomato juice for breakfast, and ice in their highballs...
Hollywood's leading citizens, aglitter and atwitter one evening last week in the little Academy Award Theater, gulped when they heard the announcement. To Britain, target of many a ripe tomato for its quotas on U.S. films, went the choicest plum of U.S. filmdom: the Oscar for the year's best picture. The winner: J. Arthur Rank's Hamlet (TIME, June...