Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...
...these observers is Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, who proposed two weeks ago that Harvard institute as many as two meatless days a week. Under Mayer's plan, meat would be replaced by fish on one of these days and by a vegetarian dish on the other...
...consider those kinds of meals. White concedes that he is not "100 per cent satisfied" with his diet and that it was not easy to "abandon 20 years of a certain way of eating." But, he adds, "You have to wean yourself away from the idea of a meat dish, a vegetable dish and a starch dish at every meal...
...Absolutely not.") President Ford invited Justice William O. Douglas whom he tried to impeach in 1970. That breach healed, the President soon got into the swinging-singles spirit of the occasion. Whirling Chicano Singer Vikki Carr onto the dance floor, Ford was asked, "What's your favorite Mexican dish?" "You," replied Jerry without missing a beat...
Open campaigns have been the fashion, especially among Republicans, who are alert to the lessons of Watergate. Contributors at a recent G.O.P. cocktail party in San Diego dropped three and four-figure checks into a shallow dish by the door, then watched bemusedly as the host invited reporters to examine the checks...