Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect the tomato that makes the soup that Campbell sells by the millions of cans, botanists have been working for years on different strains of Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster. Just when the bumper crop was ready to be picked from California to New Jersey, the Campbell Soup Co. found itself saddled with a strike...
...triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...
...people trooped through the Union, registered, ate vichyssoise, cold turkey, and tomato aspic salads, then trooped out again carrying immense bundles of Class of 1943 Paraphernalia: '43 wastebaskets, '43 combs, '43 razors, '43 lipstick, '43 keychains, '43 showercaps...
...that!" he protested, staggering to his feet and menacing poor Mia. Neither did Mitchum, who plastered a plate of salad on the Dutchman's face. In return, the gentleman heaved a salad at Mia. Before the waiters broke up the festivities, the air was full of cucumbers and tomato slices. Custard pie, anyone...
...gardening at their country cottage. Anyone who doubts her zeal for "interventionism" should talk to Britain's pub owners. After she pushed through legislation as Minister of Transport making a Breathalyser test mandatory for drunken-driving suspects, they sarcastically introduced a new drink called "the Bloody Barbara": pure tomato juice and tonic. No matter; her plan worked. Since it began, road deaths in Britain have dropped nearly...