Word: pease
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap.
Columnist Herb Caen knew the usual trade practice: brag about your right guesses, if any, and maybe nobody will notice the others. One day last week he devoted his entire daily space in the San Francisco Chronicle to a recital of his April errors. Sample error: that fine little crack...
The man with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40...
Living On Beans, Peas
"Many of the students go into the country on weekends and work for farmers in order to get food-why, we were living on beans and peas," Miss Von Lieben smiled. Her description of university life in modern Vienna was a bleak one.