Word: dessertation
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Last month Magalhaes turned up at Rio's Laranjeiras Palace and sat down to lunch with President Kubitschek. By dessert, the President had vowed to make good on his promise to pave the highway linking Bahia with Rio, 750 miles to the south, and last week the government let 24 contracts for the $38 million job. Kubitschek also promised to find $3,500,000 to complete one of Magalhaes' cheris'ied projects: long-deferred completion of the 20,000-kw. power dam on the Rio das Contas, which would feed electricity to the southern part...
CHILDREN'S TREAT was ordered by Food and Drug Administration, which issued a new set of standards to enrich ice cream, the favorite U.S. dessert (18.7 Ibs. per person last year). Henceforth it must be richer, cleaner, and contain less air and water...
nervous pudding-gelatin dessert...
...final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried on in grand style till dawn and on. By then the hardy stragglers were surfeited with champagne, whisky and sturgeon eggs-plus beer for the inelegant and unlimited milk for nondrinkers. When the fireworks, dancing (to three orchestras) and tippling (at four bars) were all over, many...
...little later at a seaside diner, the same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...