Word: broiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Missile Debate" [March 14]: A parched world groans with hunger, our cities broil in the hatreds of the dispossessed, and the Pentagon wants us all to sit under a multibillion-dollar ABM umbrella! And lo, the umbrella is full of holes! So is our national conscience and sense of stewardship...
...study of menu language would be complete without this item from ROD'S 1890s (Morris Township, N.J.): "London Broil-Sliced Beef, with the inevitable mushroom sauce...
Pineapple pie-flavored serving ladies smile at jokes and quasi affectionate banter, but still give meager helpings of food. Even lavish compliments on the quality of the chow never clicit more than the two regulation eggs or one slice of London broil. These are the ladies whom the management has successfully intimidated. The presence of a man in a double-breasted suit behind the serving line often creates a whole row of pineapple pie-flavored ladies. The inveterate ones are usually either under 25 or over 80. They crave affection, but fear the whip...
That leaves Mary Martin, which is a magnificent mercy for the more than 100 theater parties that are already committed to go to this threnody. Whether she is nostalgically sashaying through a cane-and-straw-hat routine, or spinning head over heels on a giant Roto-Broil of a torture wheel, or running her voice like a caress over a romantic ballad, she has the star quality that transcends marquees and animates legends. In her bearing, timing, suppleness, versatility, she is a flawless professional. Her only wrong move in Jennie is being in Jennie...
...Broil in Private. In all the cement pouring din, what of the well-to-do few who once had huge hunks of the Caribbean to themselves? They are still there, but in a new kind of resort away from the crowds where they can crawl off to their own undisturbed beach and broil in private peace. They frequently join in cooperatives, started either by a millionaire real estate developer or by a group of friends who pool their money for property on which to build a cottage colony. And since the co-ops are strictly screened, the members...