Word: hardtack
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...manage his cutlery, hold a hotdog, and escape from a girl with blonde dreadlocks who said she wanted to be his best friend. In fact, run-ins like this have unquestionably been happening at Harvard since 1636, when the first hobbledehoy freshmen putzed around the Yard, chewing on hardtack and trying to make friends with the other budding clergymen. And they’re still happening, (albeit with a deepened knowledge of technology). This year, as Hunter Bennett concentrates on eating his third piece of fried dough and saving the pin number of another BBM friend, he orates with...
...pork--which is essentially really, really fatty unsmoked bacon--for a stew, using a split log as my cutting board. I don't know exactly how this stew will taste, but I am pretty sure it will include toothpicks. While I am chopping, I take my first bite of hardtack, the unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn't endear...
...bitterness of the Civil War had been transformed, by memory and new fortunes, into an event which, in retrospect, conferred virtue and glory upon all (Union) participants. At the Palmer House dinner, the menu, appropriately glorious, featured oysters, champagne, prairie chicken, buffalo, shrimp salad, hardtack and cigars. At 10:45 the speeches began. General U.S. Grant, the guest of honor, had just returned from a world tour. He expressed a slightly be fuddled surprise at being called upon to speak, and declared that Americans "are beginning to be regarded a little by other powers as we, in our vanity, have...
...produce three collections of short stories that libraries catalogue as "fantasy and science fiction," although Fast calls the most recent, Time and the Riddle, "my Zen stories." In these books he cuts loose and plays with absurdities. One tale relates how an American general in Vietnam, "Old Hell and Hardtack Mackenzie," accidentally shoots down an angel while blasting Viet Cong with his machine gun. Another tells of a hole that appears in the floor of a fourth-story apartment in Los Ahgeles, and how a sunlit pasture reaching as far as the eye can see appears on the floor below...
Corned Beef and Competition. Cost overruns have been standard procedure in American military history. There were corned beef scandals during the Civil War, and the West was won partly on padded Government contracts for shot, powder, rifles, bully beef and hardtack. Today's excesses can hardly be blamed on defense-industry "profiteering." While U.S. industry's overall return on investment rose from 7.1% in 1967 to 10.1% last year, the defense contractors' profits have dropped from an average 10.1% to around...