Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow had a wonderful time. He watched his amateur athletes serve, in a most professional manner, a certain dyspeptic Boston columnist a dish of his own words--something about somebody resigning--without even a bicarbonate chaser...
Perhaps to offset any undue sobriety of a rally-less Friday night a bevy of Radcliffe, usherettes will dish up refreshments between the musical numbers tonight, band officials announced. Nothing stronger than cider and coke, however, will be donated by the Band...
...Technology last week. The 200-inch mirror for the mighty telescope at Mt. Palomar was finally pronounced finished. Grinding and polishing began in 1938, was stopped in wartime, and resumed at the end of 1945. Now the big glass disc, yellowish blue and slightly murky like an old Pyrex dish, is a paraboloid perfect within two millionths of an inch...
Readers who are accustomed to febrile, jerky best-sellers will find When the Mountain Fell a strange dish. So will those whose sense of style has been numbed by those same bestsellers. When the Mountain Fell is the artfully simple story of what happened when a landslide wiped out a herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that...
...Plan-a question which the U.S. must now answer-was this: can, or will, the U.S. get Western Europe to organize itself? Russia was obviously banking on the chance that the U.S. could not or would not. Then chaos would come to Europe, and chaos is Russia's dish...