Word: dished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John T. Flynn's latest book is an appropriate conclusion to the blindly partisan Congressional Investigations of our Asian policy. He whips up the theory that we "sold out" Asia China to the Reds, adds a pinch of pipe-dream, and seasons the dish with his own violent prejudices. The resulting book offers two hundred pages of emotional mincemeat...
...Royal Dish. This week, as Mossadegh got set to fly home (he indignantly denied that the Shah had ordered him home), he faced the toughest crisis of his short, spectacular stay in office. When he kicked the British out, he promised Iran that there would be plenty for all. Instead, the loss of the $4,000,000 monthly oil revenue has brought Iran's government near to bankruptcy, its currency near to worthlessness, and the long-unpaid civil servants to the verge of striking. At the present rate, the Teheran government has only enough money left for another month...
Inflation is fast robbing the people of their pretty green, blue and purple paper money; a kilo of black meat now costs an average day's wages-twice the price of a month ago. Chelow-kabab, the famed national dish of rice and meat, which cost 15 rials 60 days ago, is now 30. Poor Iranians grumbled: "Chelow-kabab is a royal dish now. Too rich to swallow." Bricklayer Hassan Rezaie expressed a growing bewilderment: "They tell me that oil has been nationalized. But the good life has not yet come." It was a dangerous game the British...
Chopin: Nocturnes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 4 sides LP). Chopin has always been Rubinstein's dish; in this new recording of all 19 nocturnes, he performs memorably. Recording: excellent...
...Last week a tattered, footsore and weary Skippy turned up in Morris, and took his accustomed place at the Fossen dinner table. Any doubt of Skippy's identity vanished when he passed up roast beef to gorge on lettuce and tomato salad with mayonnaise, long his favorite dish...