Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk will soon get into the routine of helping with breakfast (canned grapefruit juice, canned butter, toast made from bread which Bell baked himself, canned bacon, powdered eggs and coffee) and cleaning up afterwards; of replenishing the coal supply and providing water from blocks of lake ice; of serving Eskimos who mush in from trapping posts by komatik (dog sled...
Within 15 minutes he had written the words & music of his first song, I Want to Take Care of Mother. By 11:45, when he went on the air for a broadcast, he had written 18, including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
They were the also-rans of golf who were assigned the early morning starting times, so that the afternoons could be kept for the crowd-drawing stars. During wartime 1944, only 25 players competed in the "grapefruit" circuit, now the woods and the fairways were full of them...
Most of the dew sweepers at St. Petersburg, as at the other tournaments in the Florida winter "grapefruit" circuit, were country-club pros-big frogs in the little puddles and big bunkers back home. They didn't look as good against pro golf's Big 20 as they did against the local businessmen. Said Gene Sarazen, watching one of them practice earnestly for the next day's dawn patrol: "He'll be back in Swizzlestick, Arkansas, next month, giving lessons...
Like many a little king, Joe Di Giorgio was not satisfied, although he grows more plums and Bartlett pears than anybody else in California, more oranges and grapefruit than anybody else in Florida, more grapes than anybody else on earth. So he was spending more than $1,000,000 for his new winery, which will eventually hold two million gallons in fermentation tanks, another 20 million in storage...