Word: broiler
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...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...
President Truman stepped grimly before a bouquet of microphones and the broiler heat of television lights in the White House last week to explain the meaning of Korea in terms of dollars, of national sacrifice, and of world peace...
Pass Me That Gin, Son. What is there about these two birds that makes them so much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
Qualification. In Spokane. Wash., a husband denied, during divorce proceedings, that he beat his wife over the head seven times with a broiler; it was only three times, he averred, and with a lunch bucket...
...discussion stage is a kitchenless house. The food department, concealed in the living room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...