Word: larders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the Arctic Refuge is developed, the U.S. will remain in the position of a hungry consumer with a relatively small larder. The Persian Gulf now holds two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. The U.S. share is less than 3%, while its annual consumption has reached nearly 30% of worldwide usage. Those sobering figures are reason enough for the U.S. to avoid gas- gulping habits that would bring on another painful awakening...
...Even some of the artful dodges developed by resourceful shoppers over the years are proving unreliable in the current crisis. "I've always bought meat on the black market at a premium," says a well-off Moscow writer. "But now I'm having trouble getting meat anywhere. Even the larder of the black market is growing bare...
...Second, coat them with vaseline (to clog the porous shell and keep moisture and oxygen away from the yolk). For good measure, they had taken two live chickens. Michel promised them, "If you lay one egg, I will spare your life." The chickens contributed their lives to the larder...
...akin to sweet reality at the 55-acre Hollywood studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. A year ago, the company that distributed one of the first Hollywood feature-length movies (The Squaw Man, 1914) was close to the ropes, its revenues sagging and its film larder practically bare. Today, in the words of Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Guardian Research, a Los Angeles investment-management firm, "they're having the greatest year of any company in the recent history of the movie business...
Recent newcomers -- Greeks and Middle Easterners, Hispanics and Asians -- are already adding their produce, breads and seasonings to the ever expanding American larder. Pita bread and tacos are now on supermarket shelves alongside English muffins and bagels. Cilantro, jalapeno peppers and mangoes are almost as standard in produce departments as carrots and apples; hoisin sauce and annatto are right there on the shelf with the catsup and mustard...