Word: eek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles her. If a filling drools out onto a baking sheet or artichoke leaves uncooperatively start to flop out of shape, she just scoops and shoves until natural perfection is unnaturally assembled. Voila...
...fayre solempne man, But coude no more abyde al this speche And set about his own manere to teche. Seyde he that evyle was stille synn And synn, an evyle always hadde been. And so the werre wageth al aroune Whyle clerkes werk goes merrily aloune Eek I will pace its proces day by day And haply holpen it aloune the way. J.K. Dane...