Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waitress in the professional drivers' section is a big motherly-looking woman with red hair piled in careful curls on top of her head. She correctly sizes up the proper meal for the new customer at the counter. "Don't know what you want, honey? Try the chicken-noodle soup with a hot roll. It will stick to you like you've got something, and you don't have to worry about grease...
...recuperation. The community rallied with a dramatic outpouring of spirit and resources for the fire victims. Food and clothing by the ton poured into churches and collection centers. Department stores handed out vouchers that amounted to gift certificates. Supermarkets, restaurants and private citizens came forth with everything from fried chicken to pizza. One anonymous donor sent $100,000 to St. Carthage Church for its homeless "to rekindle their hopes." Developers were already drawing up plans for reconstruction of the houses at a cost estimated at $80,000 each. While Pennsylvania legislators in Harrisburg introduced bills seeking $5 million...
...primarily for drinking. As customers taper off and new laws discourage happy-hour promotions, however, managers are pushing food to make up for lost liquor revenues. The China Rose in Arlington, Texas, replaced its traditional happy-hour offer with a 24-foot- long buffet stacked with Kung Pao chicken, Szechwan fish and egg rolls to keep customers on their stools. In front of the Long Beach Hyatt Regency hotel flies a flag emblazoned with a giant banana: the "fruit of the month" served at the hotel's jam-packed juice bar. "We're discouraging all- you-can-drink offers...
...spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad in an infant's diaper, and writing a 1,500-page treatise on the 99 names...
...then another. Mother Honey Carder (Melinda Dillon) quits the road to care for them and then quits the marriage as Doc's partying gets out of hand. Doc is not lucky in love or money, but some ideas are worse than others a fast-food joint named "Doc Jenkins' Chicken Fried German Food To Go" fails fast...