Word: gumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lehman Hall representatives realized that their Make-the-Food-Palatable policy was not only no longer adequate but actually conflicted with the Make-the-Students-Healthy program. The French dictionary was consulted once more, but no new words were found that could describe the food. Consomme, bouillon, puree, mongol, gumbo and other mumbo jumbo had been exhausted in trying to label the soup. And hamburger, whether Parisienne or Brooklynese, they had to admit was simply hamburger. With one final heroic effort, "Okra" was tacked onto the chicken gumbo in the last Sunday dinner, and than the dining halls were quickly...
...north, where winter still gripped the land, they were said to be sending reinforcements into Leningrad on a double-track railway over the ice of Lake Ladoga; in the far south also they were moving up reinforcements. There the land was thawing into the same awful gumbo that had sucked at hub caps back in the autumn, before the winter leave...
...when the great blue herons return from the South to their ancient nesting places in the sycamore trees along the headwaters of Verdigris River. The birds had come; they flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last year...
...slide was more than a half a mile wide and 150 feet high when it hit the town, a roaring, lethal gumbo of mud, water and boulders. In minutes it had swept over a whole section of the town, strewed bodies six miles down the road, mounded up in the riverbed and changed the river's course...
...Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch of gumbo mud that lay fender deep in a six-foot gully, then bouncing up the sides of the gully and tearing through a quarter-mile of heavy underbrush. Not even Frenchy showed signs of wear & tear...