Word: faintness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...useful quality may be a spirit of adventure. Nowhere is an unprejudiced palate better rewarded. Many foods considered delicacies by the Chinese cause Westerners to shudder. Among such exotica are snake, sea slug, turtle, bird's nests formed of swallows' saliva, dried jellyfish and webs of duck feet. The faint-palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken and, along with earthy black mushrooms, lends savor...
Theodore:"Ohhh...I feel motht faint, I mutht retahre. Benthon, fetch me my thweata! Ohhhh...
...even into junior high school classrooms. Though his proposal for early education has met with resistance from religious and conservative groups, Koop is insistent. While pushing his program before a gathering of religious broadcasters in Washington, D.C., last week, he declared, "This is not an age for the faint of heart or of soul...
Harvard was giving away about four inches and 30 pounds at every position. Crimson sophomore Mike Gielen gave it his usual all-out performance--even taking a charge with five seconds remaining and all faint hope of victory extinguished--but at 5-ft., 10-in. he was simply too short to perform effectively in traffic...
Less spectacular, perhaps, was the discovery of a galaxy in the act of being born, a celestial infant long sought by astronomers. The one they finally found, called 3C 326.1, is exceedingly faint; it has been known for about 30 years, but only as an unseen source of radio waves...