Word: burgoo
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...diminishing American landscape but to the limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans. It's a bucket list of restaurants serving local, often obscure dishes, ranked cheerily from best to almost best. The Sterns' nation is one with at least a few places still serving the Kentucky burgoo (thick stew) Kurlansky dug up in those WPA files, as well as South Carolina perloo (meat-and-rice dish), Wisconsin hoppel poppel (meal in a skillet), Ohio sauerkraut balls and even the Vermont sour-milk doughnuts that Kurlansky longs for. The Sterns' America has endless varieties of hot dogs...
...demanding that 49-Down disarm 35. To date 36. A diuretic alleviates it 37. "W"'s sib 38. Marvin, editor of the article by 37-Across and a Bush adviser 41. Kicker's target, perhaps 42. Where Bill and Hillary met 43. Slumgullion or burgoo 44. Where Georgia is located 47. Recreational wheels, for short 49. They walked out of disarmament talks 50. Hillary didn't leave one 51. Pothook shape...
...into the lead with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each of 24 lucky ticket holders in the worldwide Irish Sweepstakes lottery. >Milton Ernstof's Burgoo: the Newport-Bermuda yacht race, over 142 of the world's fastest racing yachts-biggest field in the event's 58-year history. A Class E, 38-ft. fiber-glass yawl, one of the smallest boats in the race, Burgoo proved to be just right for the light...
Peter lunges for the bottle, despite the snake. He lurches over to the hotel window and begins his inane, compulsive ritual, shouting the names of the Derby winners in backward sequence at the passers-by far below: "Broker's Tip, Burgoo King, Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox ... Flying Ebony. Jump, Peter. Fly like Flying Ebony." Another snake, as big as his thigh, strikes at him. The bottle drops and shatters on the radiator. Sobbing "Leave me alone. No more. No more," Peter collapses across the hotel bed on the bare breast of the nymphomaniacal redhead with whom he is sharing...
...though they are reported as unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...