Word: dish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denka (Your Imperial Highness, or Honorable Member of the Imperial Palace), most of his students have learned to address him as Sensei (Learned One). They have also learned that if they go to the cafeteria after class, they are apt to find him chatting away over a favorite dish that is now known as Prince Noodles. Then, with a friendly nod, the new professor departs-followed by an attendant whose solemn duty it is to tell him exactly what was wrong with his morning lecture...
...Georges Auguste Escoffier, two of his disciples, Chefs Herbodeau and Thalamas, dish up the first full serving of the old master that Americans have ever been offered. Though better at stirring a sauce than pushing a pen, they know what they are writing about, and have garnished a life of Escoffier with an appraisal of his historic role in civilization's only indispensable art-cooking...
...resolute entrant in his state's championship tennis tournament, New Jersey's outdoorsy Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, unseeded, wielded his racket as if he meant it, wound up with politics still a more rewarding dish for him. Weekend Tennist Meyner, 46, was eliminated, in his first round, in straight sets...
...Correspondent Piero Saporiti flew over the Andes for a first, fresh-eyed view of Peru, its economy and policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
...records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons ends by creating the one effect the producers were presumably trying to avoid: unadulterated...