Word: cutlet
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...when the cheater gets caught. Few realized how great a premium this risk placed on student ingenuity, however, until last month, when waggish José Antonio Suárez, the students' cultural-activities boss at the University of Barcelona, organized a public exhibition of chuletas. A chuleta (literally, cutlet) is academic slang for a crib note or, by extension, any cribbing device. Opposed by the University of Barcelona's brass, Suárez went ahead on his own. He proposed anonymity and return of chuletas to all exhibitors...
...tangy juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
...notes that a restaurant menu offers a dreaded veal cutlet. He suggests that hic jacet is a sport coat from the corn belt and that ad nauseam is a sickening advertisement. He even tells a dream girl on an ocean liner: "If you care to take a turn on deck, you'll find me forward. Possibly even a bit unscrupulous...
With eggs cut out of his diet, the boy "became very clear mentally, rose to the head of his class and became captain of the football team." His disbelieving mother tested him with a veal cutlet, breaded in an egg mixture. After dinner, the boy said: "If I didn't know that I never eat eggs any more, I'd say that I felt just the way I used to when I was eating eggs...
...Caple's special prey were butchers who had been reported for playing favorites with comely customers. If Mrs. Caple was able to charm them out of an extra cutlet, she then chilled them with a summons...