Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman strode into his weekly press conference with the wary, tight-lipped air of an actor awaiting the first overripe tomato. Too often, recently, he had gone in poorly prepared, fumbled his answers, and been needled into embarrassing admissions. But this time Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short had equipped him with a sheaf of prepared statements, briefed him thoroughly on important questions, and even hooked up a wire recorder in the red marble Conference Room to help spot the reasons for Harry Truman's bobbles-and to settle any arguments over exactly what the President said...
Rector MacCormick plowed on about home rule for Scotland, even after a couple of faculty members, hit by rotten eggs, gave up and withdrew. When it was all over, MacCormick dabbed at egg and tomato stains on his robes, said tersely: "One of the liveliest installations I've ever seen...
...good measure, when he was in the town of Waynesburg, someone had also hit him with a tomato...
Including a Tomato. Even from his eminence, the son of President William Howard Taft was not inclined to sneeze. Robert Alphonso Taft had measured the big attack on him with a politician's careful and increasingly anxious eye. It was not Ferguson alone he feared. Taft was running against a large number of other people including, in a way, himself...
...Birds Eye-Snider division forms the biggest segment of the industry. Its 50-odd frozen foods this year will account for a sizable chunk of General Foods' estimated $500 million gross sales. Last week, to help it stay ahead, Birds Eye-Snider brought out the first frozen tomato-juice concentrate, hopes to have another bestseller...