Word: curds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning the good doctor left Vimoutiers, never to return or be heard from again-but the curd he had started fermented after him. Two years later a statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good...
...picking out two lines of poetry similar in some way other than in meaning (a) With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, b) When I consider how my light is spent, c) When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw), a student must show a high degree of literary perception. Each line has ten syllables, and each is in iambic pentameter. But only b makes little attempt to convey meaning through the sound of the words used...
...last week with a plea of nolo contendere* to charges of conspiring to violate the 1939 U.S. Neutrality Act by attempting to ship arms to Cuba (TIME, Dec. 14). Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri fined the ex-President $9,000; in a similar procedure, his onetime Interior Minister, Segundo Curd Messina, was fined...
...Bean curd, vegetables and meat within...
Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp was Streit's particular villain. The judge directly linked Rupp with Bookie Ed Curd, characterized as "the Frank Erickson of Kentucky." The judge charged that Rupp 1) wined and dined Curd at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub;* 2) with the knowledge of the players, was often in contact with Curd to get the gambler's "line" on Kentucky games; 3) once bawled out a player for missing a shot that "just cost my friend, Burgess Carey, $500." In addition, Streit charged that a player was crippled for a month when coaching authorities allowed...