Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somewhere between estrogen and death," she mutters); her three children are grown and flown, and the elegant white walls of her fine house do not have crayon marks or grape jelly on them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin, pour a cup of coffee and then hear her say, 'These kids are driving...
...Canada's ruling Liberal Party held a convention in Ottawa last week to choose a successor to Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who has led the country for 15 of the past 16 years. Seven candidates tried to woo the party's 3,500 delegates with barbecued ribs and chicken, corned-beef sandwiches, chips and plenty of suds, rock bands and sightseeing boats. But in the end, after three days of speeches and revelry, the delegates Saturday evening elected on the second ballot the candidate who had been the front runner since the beginning: John Turner, 55, the silver-haired...
Reynolds and Chinese officials are exploring a possible future deal involving one of the company's other products: Kentucky Fried Chicken. For Reynolds executives, that prospect conjures up another dream, in which 1 billion Chinese lick their fingers after sampling Colonel Sanders' spicy recipe...
Anderson didn't focus on just the turkey war, but used for comparison the Chicken War of 1961-1964 and also analyzed the Textile Wrangle of 1969-1971 and another textile fight in 1956 between the U.S. and Japan. The Government thesis analyzed the varying intensity of the fights and the causes for the intensity...
...Fighting Over Fabric and Fowl" may have earned the Currier House resident high marks from the department, but his unusual interest in poultry also earned him the name "Captain Chicken" from some of his friends. Nevertheless, Anderson was one of the first to do research on the dispute which, he says, "no one has any clue about." Despite the strange epithet he received from his friends. Anderson has turned his knowledge into a possible job: he is up for a job as confidential adviser to the Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs...