Word: clammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already developed a taste for a Boston specialty, New England clam chowder, but his favorite dishes are still pot-au-feu and kidneys cooked with Chablis. "You see," says Madame Munch, "he has a modest taste." He likes a good nip of Scotch, is amazed that he has been unable to find good Alsatian vintages...
...most effective poetry in this collection is in "To the Immaculate Virgin, on a Winter Night." Though contemptuous in nature, it is a clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when...
...year-old carpenter named Joe Gagnon claimed a world record for clam eating after he downed 167 steamed little-necks in eight minutes in Seattle...
...built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items of special equipment: an inner-view mirror (to keep an eye on his ulcers...
...find palate-tempters. In little French Canadian villages there is the traditional thick soupe aux pois to which the habitants attribute their virility. For dessert there are crisp little grand-pères (doughballs cooked in a pot of maple syrup). In the Maritimes, there are lobsters and clam chowder, Annapolis Valley baked apple dumplings, and a sturdy pudding called blueberry grunt. On the prairies the great delicacy is smoked Winnipeg goldeye (a Canadian lake fish) done to a golden turn, and Vancouver brings forth huge meaty crabs from the icy waters of Boundary...