Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, the Sanitation Department will retain samples of all food served for 24 hours afterward. But even the authorities who recommended the step admit it cannot prevent poisoning. At the most, saving food can only make the task of finding the offending dish easier...
Mushroom Woodcock ("This is a dish like the basic black dress: you can garnish it with accessories...
...like a seasoned chef making a salad. The fresh green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
...Conservatives denounced controls and praised free enterprise, but they rarely descended from generalities. Arguing about denationalization of already nationalized industries, one speaker brushed off a tough problem with oldtime Tory nonchalance: "If I don't like my eggs scrambled, I'll throw them away and prepare another dish to my choice." That was an unfortunate simile; few Britons these days have any eggs to throw away...
...plants. They improve the soil by burrowing into it and dying. Singing crickets and fighting crickets are part of show business to the Chinese. Some insects, including locusts, ants, beetles and caterpillars, are food for some people (the Hyslop family tried the 17-year locust, fried, but found the dish tasteless...