Word: befallen
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...chefs love to work with new ingredients, but few have been given the opportunity that has befallen Raphael Gamon. The talented American, who has cooked for the likes of Cher, Madonna and Steven Spielberg, has been taken on as a consultant by Red White & Pure, redwhitepure.com, an innovative spa and restaurant in Singapore. His mission? To give a creative twist to an old-fashioned branch of Chinese cooking known as "tonic cuisine...
...city's silence. It was the first thing legendary jazz pianist Henry Butler noticed when he returned to his hometown after Katrina. Blind, Butler relied on friends to detail the devastation of his Gentilly home, but his other senses served up a potent picture of what had befallen the city...
...Only now do New Orleans residents seem to understand the foolishness of destroying the wetlands that once protected them and the need for strict building codes that would have lessened the effects of a disaster. I am truly sorry for the misfortune that has befallen New Orleans. But I just do not feel personally obligated to pay for it. Craig M. Miller Lakewood, Ohio...
Only now do New Orleans residents seem to understand the foolishness of destroying the protective wetlands and the need for stricter building codes. I am truly sorry for the misfortune that has befallen New Orleans. But I just do not feel personally obligated to pay for it. CRAIG M. MILLER Lakewood, Ohio...
...then, Beethoven had already realized that the worst fate imaginable for a musician had befallen him. In June 1801, he admitted to a friend, “For the last three years my hearing has become weaker and weaker. The trouble is supposed to have been caused by the condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that...