Word: beetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bottle, and the ledger books borrowed from his father-treasurer of Monterey County-to scribble his first short stories. With a stubbornness that bordered on menace, the "red-faced, blue-eyed giant," as a contemporary described him, toughed out the lean years. He worked as a hand on sugar-beet ranches and wheeled 100-lb. barrows of concrete as a construction worker at Madison Square Garden during a stay in New York City. The publisher of his first novel, Cup of Gold, a lush fantasy about the pirate Henry Morgan, promptly went belly-up. So did his next two publishers...
Goldstein's A la Russe brings alive many of the mouth-watering meals of Russian literature, like the robust soups and breads of Gogol's Ukrainian tales. Borsch, the rich beet soup considered typically Russian, is actually native to the Ukraine, which boasts 100 varieties; included here are a Ukrainian and a Moscow version. The spicy food of Georgia is a prized addition to the blander Russian cuisine, notably tabaka (pressed and grilled chicken), as well as the more familiar shashlyk from the Caucasus. Among other dishes well known to the West, beef Stroganoff and Russian salad were...
Livestock will also munch on cheese, potatoes, oranges, birdseed, beet pulp, cotton seeds, tallow, brewery mash and chocolate-chip cookies. "Pigs love chocolate. They really do," says Robert Easter, an associate professor of animal science at the University of Illinois. The mash, however, causes the swine to stagger drunkenly a bit at first. Some farmers have used such products for years, especially in times of drought. But some animal nutritionists say the use of alternative feed, though not widespread at all, has become more attractive in these hard economic times. With proper dietary balancing, the experts say, the animals will...
...will run you about $5. The cheeseburger platter at Charlie's Kitchen at under three dollars is one of the better deals around just don't remind the locals who frequent this watering hole where you prepped Buddy's Sirloin Pit on Brattle St., serves a goodly slab of beet Brigham's on Mass Ave does not but it cheap...
...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beet Specials cost 60. ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches. Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...