Word: fowled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While all Chile watched for a week, 140 politicos poured into Coihueco to electioneer. The supply of fowl for the favorite local dish, cazuela de pava (turkey casserole), quickly ran out. and the wineshop had to replenish its stocks three times. The two spinsters who own Coihueco's only telephone took to their beds with aspirin, while reporters endlessly cranked the phone's old-style bell magneto. Business boomed. "Ah, to have elections every month!" said the merchants...
...Negro is a good customer. He wants to feel that he can buy the best. Swift & Co. does not advertise its ordinary fowl in Negro publications, but the more expensive Swift's Premium ("The dream chicken that came true"). Several Negro families often pool their savings to buy an expensive car and drive it on alternate days. On Harlem's Lenox Avenue, Cadillacs are so commonplace that nobody turns to look at them any more (a situation which one resourceful driver met by having his Cadillac...
...moral courage; another used to be intellectual honesty . . . Marxists can have moral courage, as the victims of Stalinist purges have demonstrated. But our "pinko-to-magenta" pedagogues are completely lacking in moral courage; they appear to be neither fish (democrats: believers in government by the people) nor fowl (Marxists: believers in government by misanthropy...
...male nurse who asked his advice: "He gave up the idea fast. I told him, 'Why, man, you have an honorable job now, and everybody recognizes your usefulness. What's the sense of studying for a job that will leave you neither fish nor fowl...
...Janet Turner, 38, who likes neat, precise pictures of crumbling marble staircases and brightly speckled guinea fowl, arrived in Texas five years ago to teach at Stephen Austin College, has just won a Guggenheim to experiment in color prints...