Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the high point of the meal, and of the all-star activities to date, was that there were fresh strawberries in the canned fruit cocktail. But in keeping with the spirit of the week, only a third of a strawberry was in each dish of cocktail...
...then Skylab had passed out of range of ground listening posts, and the astronauts toiled for more than an hour in radio silence. It was only when Skylab moved back within range of NASA'S big dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert that Mission Control learned the results. "We got the wing out and locked," reported Conrad. With a tug from the astronauts, the solar wing had swung out perpendicular to the ship and its accordion-like silicon panels were unfolding. However, hydraulic fluid in the panels' spring mechanism had stiffened in the extreme cold...
...flinch even a bit as he sits in Winthrop House dining hall. Light more intense than 10,000 suns is incandescing behind his sealed eyes, but he feels no pain. Only a sweet whiteness lies within his head. It overwhelms his thoughts, taking them away from exams, the dish of brown ice-cream melting on the table before him, and his father's plea that if he must give any money to a 15-year-old guru, he should turn over income only and keep his capital intact. Ted Chadwick has "had Knowledge" for over a year...
...most part, Nixon and his advisers seemed determined to ride out the squall without taking one of their sudden, celebrated zigs in policy. In fact, the only thing they seemingly wanted to change was the nation's eating habits. After the President had endorsed fish as a "patriotic" dish and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns picked cheese, last week COLC Deputy Director James W. McLane jokingly came up with the ultimate meat substitute: abstinence. "Eat a little less," he advised...
...Richard Nixon, saying, in effect: "O.K., Mr. President, since your answer to high food prices is to be patient and wait for lower ones, let's hear what you eat." The White House dutifully mails back recipes for some of the Nixon family's favorite low-budget dishes. Few involve any kitchen wizardry that is likely to tax Presidential Chef Henry Haller's Swiss culinary education. Daughter Tricia Nixon Cox is fond of a fowl dish that is glopped up with two cans of cream of chicken soup, and the First Family's "Continental salad...