Word: cob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customary souvenir corn-cob pipes and 4,000 sample packages of cigarettes will be distributed. Admission is one dollar and the doors open...
...mating modern corn and teosinte, a synthetic hybrid corn cob was developed which closely matched, in size and botanical characteristics, prehistoric corn cobs found in caves in the southwestern United States...
Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...
...called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...
Because of a shortage of corncobs,which are needed to make furfural (a chemical compound) for defense products ranging from synthetic rubber to nylon, OPS junked cob controls last week, hoping that a higher price will bring more on the market. Other items recently exempted from control: wooden haircurlers, glass ice cubes, toy bones for dogs, incense burners, wigs and toupees...