Word: cowed
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...beneficiary of Lima's resurgent interest in bullfighting is Gladys Vilca, operator of an open-air food stall in the passageway that circles the ring for the past 14 seasons. Vilca offers cow heart kebabs, known locally as anticuchos, and picarones, a kind of pumpkin funnel cake. The line in front of her fryers remains long after the matadors have left and the aficionados linger to discuss the events...
...rules forbade the distribution of hard alcohol at the tailgate. But, Eliot House’s cardboard cow dispensed vodka, in addition to standard boxed wine, from its udders...
...were able to translate the popular fashions in Japan to me: “lace,” “sporty,” American casual (pronounced “a-meri-caji”), and “dento,” or traditional. They also said cow spots are big, and continued to nod their heads as I pressed them to confirm that cow spots (“You mean black spots on white? Like ‘moo’?”) are indeed fashionable in Japan. Maybe they were hinting at leather, but regardless...
...make the point, the Kremlin has been turning its gas pipelines on and off. That got the attention of Ukraine, Belarus and the Czechs. To cow Poland it slapped an embargo on meat imports, pitting the angry Poles against their not-so-supportive Western neighbors. The most recent gambit is the threat to install short-range missiles in Kaliningrad or Belarus - as if those 10 American antiballistic missiles slated for deployment in Poland were aimed straight at the Kremlin's men's room. Of course, they are not. They are intended as a hedge against an Iranian nuclear threat...
...Kang said that Eliot House is still planning a fully themed affair. “We’re going to have a country theme set up,” Kang said. “We’re going to get a cardboard cut-out cow, and its udders are going to dispense wine.” While PfoHo does not plan to have a themed tailgate, Miranda said the Hoco will serve the winning recipe of the House’s recent chili competition. —Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached at adphill@fas.harvard.edu...