Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...down to eat, still alone. When, at long last, a chance passer-by said hello to him, the official eagerly stood up to shake hands. Without prompting, he launched into a monologue that splashed forth like water from a spilled pitcher. Things were looking brighter, he said. His mail was unmistakably encouraging, and surveys had proved him right. His program was "sound," he insisted. Four-fifths of the problem was solved, and it is only "the one-fifth that gives us trouble." Plaintively, he predicted that the November elections would vindicate him, that politicians who repudiated him and his program...
...goes an old proverb often quoted by David Burpee, 67, president and proprietor of the W. Atlee Burpee Co., the world's largest mail-order seed house. To spread the joys of gardening, Burpee each year mails out 4,000,000 copies of his catalogues, which bloom with richly flowered prose, amaze with promises of something "never before seen in asters," and unfold the mysteries of celtuce (a celery-lettuce combination) and midget watermelon...
Burpee's 910,000 mail-order home garden customers bought nearly 7,000,-000 packets of seeds last year, ranging from Surecrop stringless wax beans (20?) to the Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower hand-pollinated double petunias ($2 for a packet of 100 seeds), the most expensive seeds Burpee sells...
...where the U.S. currently bases three U-2s, the opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's new security pact with the U.S. With near-hysteria, London's Daily Herald called the U.S. a "summit saboteur," and the Daily Mail angrily described Eisenhower as "a tumbled titan . . . with inept hands...
...staggered by the response: letters poured in from Maidstone and Canterbury, from Ashford, Wye and Deal. A woman in Australia wrote that she had heard the hum before she emigrated from Kent. Said Hyams: "We could scarcely get through the door because of the mound of mail." Most of the writers expressed relief be cause they had not dared mention the hum before, each thinking he was the only one hearing...