Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case with brevity, restraint and a quarterdeck command of facts now long on the record. The U.S. was unready at Pearl Harbor, says Kimmel, but not by his fault. The trouble, he says, was that Washington never told him what was cooking or where and when it might boil over. All through November, for instance, Washington was reading intercepted messages in which the Japanese consulate in Hawaii sent Tokyo pinpoint locations of Pearl Harbor warships. Says Kimmel: "The information received during the ten days preceding the attack clearly pointed to the Fleet at Pearl Harbor as the Japanese objective...
...sends wheat, cotton, cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots fired by Israeli-made stoves, turned out near Israel's Ataturk Forest and carried to Istanbul in vessels of the Turkish Maritime Bank...
Swimming Crawfish. For 60 crawfish prepare a bouillon with 2 cups dry white wine, ½cup cognac, 3 large carrots and one large onion cut in thin slices, 1 teaspoon salt, a pinch of cayenne and 3 chopped shallots. Boil covered for ½ hour. Then put in crawfish and boil for 10 minutes, turning them about three or four times. Serve hot, cold or tepid...
...when the Arab-Israeli war was coming to a boil, Henderson advocated a U.N. trusteeship for Israel. He was unfairly accused of anti-Semitism (Walter Winchell yowled that he was the tool of the big oil interests because the Arabian American Oil Co. had air-conditioned his apartment). When the U.S. recognized Israel, Henderson once more became an embarrassment and was shipped out as Ambassador to India. He and Pandit Nehru quickly developed a keen mutual dislike for each other...
...Percy act apologetic, ashamed and guilty. He and Edwina seemed perfectly mated, but Percy refused to mate. He was in love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...