Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story (TiME, Dec. 15, 1947), he went on a one-day hunt with Tom Armstrong, neighbor of King Ranch Chief Robert Kleberg Jr. After Miller dropped his first wild turkey with a shot through the neck, Armstrong, thinking it a lucky shot, politely hailed his marksmanship, poured a toast of bourbon in a tin cup. A second turkey, shot through the head, called for another toast. After Miller had shot a deer through the neck and another in the head, there wasn't much left of the bourbon bottle...
...body scarred by repeated gorings and 20-odd corrective operations, Franklin knows that his career as a top matador is finished. But like all good fighters, he hates to call it quits. His first practice corrida at Alcalá was quite a comedown for a matador once the toast of two continents, but Franklin did not seem to mind. In fact, he was delighted with his pupils, even though some of them reacted to the tension of their first appearance by lapsing into a series of low-comedy antics...
...head to head for Rapa, a South Sea Island. The twenty-fifth day out, the approached the tiny island, and in a letter to friends, Mrs. Davis said they "nearly went mad. Our first reaction was to wash ourselves, the first bath in 26 days. We drank a toast to the destruction of the Roaring 40's, then promptly collapsed with the sudden reaction to the terrors we had been through...
...Come in," smiled Adlai Stevenson to newsmen on the morning after, "and have some fried post-mortems on toast." The newsmen, who had followed Stevenson enthusiastically for weeks, exchanged a few fried postmortems, said goodbye and flew off with their portable typewriters, many of them to cover the birth of the new Administration. Most of the speech writers and advisers also left Springfield, going back to making a living in their law offices or newspapers. But what of Adlai Stevenson...
Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born singer who grew up to be the light brown toast of Paris, was causing a new kind of sensation on a lecture tour of South America. From her lecture platform last week Speaker Baker cried: "The United States is not a free country . . . I do not envy those who have to live there . . ." The only country, she said, where "Negroes are treated like dogs is the 'model democracy,' the United States." The anti-American Argentine press gave the Baker line as big a play as the U.S. election results as she charged...