Word: fin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great fumbling and clicking of chopsticks-an item that restaurants often ran out of, as Americans accustomed to forks and chop suey suddenly demanded authenticity. Instead of the familiar Cantonese cuisine, spicier Mandarin dishes enjoyed a vogue. Some adventurous diners even demanded preserved eggs and shark's-fin soup...
...banquet at night. While Americans watching on television get the idea that it is some kind of folk festival, it is not quite so hearty. The huge hall engulfs the guests, much like China itself. Nixon is a dim figure with Chou, nibbling at his shark's fin dish and supping his almond junket. Pat's red dress is a drop of warm blood in the gray...
Wodehouse's comedies take place in a Never-neverland of fin-de-siecle English aristocracy, where a young man like Bertram Wooster has nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have...
...awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes up the situation with a glance, and begins to look upset over the impending battle. But the brothers can't keep from chuckling at Laurent's embarrassment, Mom smiles, and finally Dad's anger melts as they all join in laughing together....FIN...
...sultans were understandably fin, icky about their companions. Concubines to whom they tossed a preliminary handkerchief of approval were known as gozde, literally "in the eye." The handful of gdzde who reached the canopied royal bed by way of secret passages became ikbal, or "bedded...