Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves. When each hen clearly understood its rank in society. Smith and Hale selected pairs of hens from each group. To the wings of the high-ranking hen of each pair, they attached wires from an electric-shock device. Then both were put in a pen with a single dish of grain...
...Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks...
Many other recipe names are equally farfetched, e.g., Matthew Punch ("because it is such a nice punch for serving at Christmas time"), Pentecost Cake (black devil's food), and Prophet's Pulse (a vegetable and egg dish). For church suppers, Author O'Brien recommends what she calls a Scripture Cake: 4½ cups I Kings 4:22 (flour...
...served as Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S., since 1953 has been an outspoken leader of the opposition in Congress. His fluent oratory and eccentric flair (he always dresses in a striking black suit, tie and hat, lunches at the Union Club but orders a favorite peasant dish of highly spiced rice and beans) gave him a needed advantage over Orlich, a dour, earnest candidate...
...Goldschädtzchen (Little Golden Treasure), and when people come to visit, she gazes at him adoringly, or licks her fingers, smooths his thinning hair and murmurs, "Horst, am I pretty?" But Horst plays glum. One day she gurgled: "Guess what we're having for dinner-your favorite dish!" And Horst replied: "So what? You act as if you'd cooked it." At such times, Maria murmurs soothingly, in the best tradition of the German Hausjrau: "Ach, Horst...