Word: dill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the entrance to the MTA, the Men's Auxiliary of the Women's Liberation Front sought signatures in support of its proposed march to the Sigmund Freud Obelisk in Vienna, Austria on January 10, 1970. Rod Weiner, representing a local cucumber processor, offered Kosher dill spears, slim jim beef jerkies, and hot finger pepers for sale to raise money for the Auxiliary...
...time you get only bare boards and a cement floor. Among the crimes punishable by solitary confinement: not waking up when they bang on the bars, not standing up before an officer, brewing coffee or toasting bread, not going to political lectures, growing a few blades of dill in your area and refusing to trample on them, or not fulfilling your norm...
...tennis pros tried it out indoors recently in Montreal, liked it so much that they are rolling it up and taking it with them for all their matches. Says Pro Tour Director Wally Dill: "Most of our players prefer it even to a grass court-the bounce is true, and it slows the game just enough so that the player's skill can show." In the coming weeks, Center Court will be installed at some 30 clubs, including Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club and the Newport Casino. Predicts Newport Casino President Jimmy Van Alen: "These new courts...
...like fun, but making commercials is usually one long, exhausting series of takes and retakes. Philip Bruns recalls the horrors of struggling to twist his squiggly mouth into a satisfied grin as he munched through five quarts of Heinz Kosher Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck...
...business." The same is true of herbs and spices. Once a store could make do with a dozen old dependables; today, supermarkets carry more than 100 items, with such old standbys as sage being displaced, as "too strong," by such postwar newcomers as fresh tarragon, fennel, thyme, dill and coriander. And for shallot fanciers there is now a Shallot-of-the-Month Club; for $9 they can receive a month's supply...