Word: dish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spelled abbacy "abbosy," and Sandra got it right. The payoff word: crustaceology. C-R-U-S-T-A-C, said Sandra (pause), E-(pause), OLOGY. "The winner!" cried Pronouncer Alleman-and after the usual flurry of congratulations, a stunned but happy Sandra withdrew with her family for a big dish...
...Henry I of England died in 1135 "of a surfeit of lampreys," a popular dish in the Middle Ages...
...Japanese ) box office, has the look of a grade A Hollywood costume adventure that was shot with an almond-eyed camera. The story opens in a geisha house, where lies "the bored baron" (Utaemon Ichikawa), the D'Artagnan of Japanese fiction, too bored even to bother with the dish that has been laid before him-and it isn't sukiyaki. Enter a messenger: a pretender to the throne has appeared. Is he or is he not the emperor's true son and heir? The baron will find out-or will he? Boinnng! A knife sprouts...
...perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish. "Ya?" she asked. Ya, I smiled in reply...
...seemed just another minor setback when, on a September morning in 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming looked at a little glass dish in which he had been growing some staphylococci (the germs that flourish in boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where...