Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to descend on Washington en masse (see following story), but the city seems unperturbed. On the Capitol lawn, a group of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana. Henry Jackson of Washington, and Harold Hughes of Iowa, startled passers-by as they sat down to dessert al fresco. The herring are beginning to run in the polluted Potomac. Willie Mays, age 39, hit four homers for the San Francisco Giants in the first four games of the new baseball season...
...flights at the airport in Geneva. Robert Flatoe, an American living in Frankfurt, who has become the leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing demand among dessert-loving West Germans for U.S. strawberries: Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten prefers serving them because, says Chef Oskar Behrmann, "they have the best aroma." Between March 1 and May 10, the big season for imported strawberries in Germany, the U.S. berries virtually eclipse the scrawnier varieties from Mexico and Israel...
...slapped the sad limp meringue on the ice cream and hardly had time to consider that putting a large round mold into a small square oven would not fail to take its toll on the dessert's overall proportions. We closed the door and prepared to wait out the three minutes at 450, but after about thirty seconds our Mr. Wizard-like curiosity overwhelmed us: ice cream in the oven? We flipped the oven door open nervously and found the meringue slipping slowly down around the knees of the melting mold. Out of the oven; onto the platter; half-eggshell...
...making the switch, the theater owners were meddling with the eating and drinking habits of thousands of New York theatergoers inside the city and out. Restaurant proprietors were the most severely affected, and many of them announced split-schedule dinners, with cocktails and the main course before the show, dessert and coffee afterward. In practice, the simpler pattern of a couple of martinis and some hors d'oeuvres first and dinner after is frequently followed. That has changed not only the audiences' dining habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol...
...Dessert has come and gone. The final rites-toasts and speeches-are about to begin. Sid Lotenberg, at the end of the table, is the emcee. He stands up, attempts as best he can to get a semblance of quiet, and asks the crowd, "Does anybody know what was happening...