Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only natural, therefore, that Columbus people should have taken to gourmet cooking with the gusto of Fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant taking Vicksburg. Ohio State offers for credit classes in French, Italian, German and Chinese cuisine. The International Wine and Food Society has a thriving local chapter, which produces an annual banquet. Cooking classes have lately sprouted in a number of private homes, as well as in a few well-stocked local emporiums such as the French Market and the Cook's Palace...
...King Amanullah launched a crash modernization effort that had some similarities to the Taraki program. But in 1929, after he had been on the throne only ten years, a civil war broke out and Amanullah went into exile, effectively ending his rule and the modernization drive. It is a chapter of Afghan history that the country's present rulers doubtless remember all too well...
...shoestore and buys all the shoes to fit himself. Then he expects other people to buy them."), adds a few Southernisms for that authentic ring, and puts it in quotes. It would have been just as easy to check A.J. Leibling's Earl of Louisiana (1961), in the chapter "Henry Luce's Shoestore," to get the quote right. In another case, 100 pages after Halberstam has convinced the reader that Kyle Palmer was the Chandlers' right hand in matters political, he reveals that Norman Chandler refused Palmer a pension when the latter was retired and destitute. Either Palmer wasn...
...Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter on the DiMaggio years...
Murray Chass's chapter on the current champions, however, is hugely disappointing. Chass covers the Yankees for the New York Times, and covers them well, with style and accuracy. Here he gives us over 60 pages with almost nothing about baseball but plenty about theh Steinbrenner-Martin-Jackson love triangle. Admittedly, it's fun to read some of Reggie "Reggae" Jackson's egotistical yammerings...