Word: chili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese ones) to tiny shops selling betel nuts and needles. Since the dispossessed shopkeepers were mostly Indians and Overseas Chinese, the Burmese people took the crackdown philosophically, but suffer because the new government-owned shops are so inefficiently run. Yet even as they queue up for onions and chili peppers in the drab city of Rangoon, which is filled with patched-up pagodas and sidewalks broken by the roots of banyan trees, the Burmese say, "Let's hope nothing happens...
butter head, chili bowl, ditty bob. Terms of contempt, used to refer to Negroes whose behavior embarrasses other Negroes...
...cook the pans off practically everybody" and contains recipes for "Status Stew" and "Stuffed Softsell Crab." Also in bookshops is something called Why Cook: 218 Recipes by One Who Can't, and another called The I Hate to Cook Book, with such slothful recipes as "Chilly Night Chili," "Simpleburgers," and "Beetniks." High Altitude. In the search for negotiable gimmicks, writers are turning out books specializing in every kitchen device (The Mixer, Handmixer and Blender Cookbook) and every sort of environment (Cooking Afloat). Other gimmicks are regional (A Taste of Texas), historical (A Civil War Cookbook), topographical (The Complete Book...
...originality. These I nailed to the walnut paneling above the fireplace. When my wife returned from her trip to a nearby drive-in, we took the hamburgers and a single hot dog and affixed them to the north wall of the dining room, then stood back and threw hot chili and beans over the entire arrangement. No need to tell you that our new art collection is the rage of the community. In the past, we had envied our more financially blessed citizens for their expensive art objects. Now we not only feel their equals, but, if my civil suit...
...Bossa literally means a protuberance, but in the argot of Rio, it connotes a natural talent or knack, as in the line, "The Duke has a lot of bossa." The only points everybody is agreed on are that 1) bossa nova is a weird crossbreeding of cool jazz with chili-peppered Latin rhythms and 2) it is big, and getting even bigger...