Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain animal cunning, qualities that Actress Gemma Jones mimes impressively. Her Louisa is a furious wren, an unbreakable China doll with a chin shaped like an eggshell and hard as a rock. "I just wanna be the best cook in England," she decides early and proceeds to bowl over the world that stands in her way. "What the bleedin' 'ell?" she hollers in florid Cockney when things go wrong. Pity the nobleman who tries to seduce her. "Push off," Louisa ripostes...
...Cards played as well as they could against the Super Bowl champions, and they had an afternoon they should remember with pride a quarter of a century from now. They outgained and outmuscled Dallas, but they were hounded by the kinds of mistakes and bad luck that have plagued them all season. Eventually the Cards lost in overtime 24-21 and stretched their losing streak to seven...
...Life Is a Bowl of Cherries - What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Bombeck...
...Chicken, fit for a millionaire. The bird is wrapped in lotus leaves, encased in clay and baked for four hours. The very special guest is allowed to break open the potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter...
...nese put it, they have an electric clock, a sewing machine and two bi cycles. The rooms are adequately furnished: three beds, a desk, a large table, rune chairs, fluorescent-light tube, two big jars for storage of rice and a small glass-topped dresser on which sits a bowl of fruit. After deductions for then-semiannual oil and rice allotments, the Ch'ens earn around $29 a month, though this depends on "work points," earned on performance in the field. They also raise some food - and possibly ex tra cash - on a small private plot...