Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
...Kirkland-Dudley contest was an unspectacular battle of defenses. Kirkland's vaunted power attack picked up a lot of short gains but got off only one long run. After a see-saw first half the Deacons finally punched their way to the 20, where a Lamb-to-Bixby pass registered the score...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...
...other extreme, the slump in textiles and jewelry had thrown approximately one in five out of work in Providence. But, paradoxically, there was enough buying power left in slump-struck Providence so that butchers could sell lamb chops at from...
...enjoyed, King Lear with a happy ending. In a version by Poet Laureate Nahum Tate, which used most of Shakespeare's plot and many of his lines, it was played by such theatrical greats as David Garrick and Edmund Kean, and applauded by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Even Charles Lamb, who disliked the happy-ending version, conceded that it had a certain stageworthiness when he wrote: "Tate has put his hook in ... this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers ... to draw it about more easily...