Word: dished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...members of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club chose tasty Film Star Shirley MacLaine, 28, as their Woman of the Year. Accepting a brass pudding pot from Club President David Rockefeller Jr.. Shirley proved to be everybody's dish. "I like it here so much I might move right in,'' said she to hungry applause. "I would like very much to be educated, but it's too late-I'm a millionaire...
...appreciate The Crucible without actually going to it (and if you haven't gone already, for Heaven's sake don't), you have to have savored a potato kugel heartburn. Potato kugel is a greasy dish made of ground potatoes, egg, and too much chicken schmaltz. Going down it is very smooth, but it keeps on insisting how good it tasted all evening long...
...Imagine James Bond rejecting a dish like that!) Buchan dealt in other literary coinage-glints of dry Scots humor, an eloquent fondness for the British countryside, the straightforward invocation of courage and comradeship in danger. The face on the coin is Victorian, but it rings true...
Word flashed to all the worlds space centers that Mariner II was in trouble. But all was not lost; at Goldstone the scientists pointed their great dish antenna with special precision and sent a radio command to Mariner II, 36 million miles away. The radio waves, traveling with the speed of light, took more than three minutes to get to their target. At last came the voice of Mariner II, reporting that it had heard the command and turned on its instruments...
...important type of radio telescope does not try to observe celestial objects with a single antenna. Instead, two antennas are placed a considerable distance apart and connected electronically so that they function like parts of a single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia...