Word: watermelon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hauge will be working under a man with a vastly different background: the slow-spoken. Florida-born McNeill began his business career by running a watermelon-and-cucumber brokerage while still in high school. He got into banking in a small bank that his uncle controlled, was president of the Hanover when it merged with Manufacturers Trust. On the side he is a Chrysler Corp. director, and as chairman of Chrysler's finance committee has played an important part in putting the company on the comeback trail...
...with Shovels. In Lebanon, the first stop, Lyndon's motorcade had barely pulled away from Beirut's Khalde International Airport when the Vice President was off and running. He jumped out of the car at a traffic circle, strode through ankle-deep sand to a burlap-shaded watermelon stand. There he conferred with the proprietor, Ibrahim Sawaan, 15, who grinned up at him from beneath a grubby red cap emblazoned "Champion Spark Plugs." Lyndon assured young Sawaan that the U.S. has "an abiding and unchanging interest in the independence and integrity of Lebanon," got an uncomprehending smile...
...heavily bearded spacemen munched watermelon and bantered with a mob of scientists, doctors and Soviet newsmen. Feeling the heat in the crowded resthouse, Popovich said, "I must admit that it was more comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...
...separated from the rocket nose and sailed smoothly ahead. Then the canister split in two halves; the released balloon began to inflate, its folded segments billowing outward as 52 lbs. of powdered benzoic acid in its interior turned to gas. At first the balloon formed an irregular watermelon shape, sunlight glittering on its irregular surfaces. Then the skin tightened into a polished sphere...
...Boccaccio '70, in which Sophia is again la dònna popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...