Word: caking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went backstage at a performance given by-Washington's newly acquired American Ballet Theater, thanked Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...
...When the chemists learned how to grow the bugs in quantity, they filtered them out of the culture, separated them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake. They are rich in B vitamins and lysine, the important aminoacid that is missing from protein made from grain...
...full house on their away games. Green Bay can afford to be generous with its champions. Packers' salaries are among the highest in the league: raw rookies get $8.000; half a dozen players are in the $20.000 bracket. And there is plenty of frosting on the cake. Last year's championship playoff was worth $5,500 to each man on the Packer squad; this year the winner's share will probably hit $7,000. The Packers get free life insurance (minimum policy: $10.000) and a free medical plan that pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors...
...requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...
...arrived. A teapot was kept under 24-hour surveillance in Indonesia President Sukarno's room, should he want a spot at any time. And to a bungalow sometimes occupied by Eccentric Millionaire Howard Hughes, midnight requests for odd items-once, it was only an upside-down cake-are promptly delivered. The hotel boasts that its kitchen can produce anything upon demand, even supplies a special $1 sirloin-carrot-and-peaburger for dogs. As a result of such tender, loving care, the occupancy rate has stayed above 90% for the last ten years, and the Beverly Hills grosses some...