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Word: chilis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a hearty lunch of hot dogs with chili, Admiral Joy climbed into his freshly painted jeep one day last week and started out from Kaesong's U.N. headquarters ("Everlasting Stability Terrace") to the conference building two blocks down the road. On the way, the admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Message from Ridgway | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...beamed, "who are bound to me by the craziness of bullfights." Later, there was an informal buffet supper, where Ecuador's President and 600 other guests consumed 15 barbecued lambs, two calves, 30 turkeys, 5,000 tortillas, 60 kilograms of beans, 14 gallons of mole, six gallons of chili sauce, three barrels of pulque (Plaza drank two glasses and liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Among Bulls & Bosses | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...immediate cause of the insurgency was Whitman's evening menu, which scheduled chili con carne and prune whip. Most of Whitman's residents, remembering their luncheon of "puppies delight" (a form of hash), decided to eat else-where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitman Girls Desert Dining Hall in Protest of Chile, Prune Whip Meal | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...railway worker and great-grandson of a Methodist bishop, Bradford picked up his Runyonesque jargon as a carnival piano player, horse trainer, apprentice embalmer, boxer ("I was stomped on up and down the border for five pesos and a bowl of chili per fight"). He once carried a spear in Aïda when Caruso sang Radames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera in Texas | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Make a bowl of hot, hot chili...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Go Soak Your Head | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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