Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversation began like this: I picked up an automatic device for squeezing lemon juice for tea and said, "What a silly thing for your people to exhibit in the Soviet Union, Mr. Nixon. All you need for tea is a couple of drops of lemon juice. I think it would take a housewife longer to use this gadget than it would for her to do what our housewives do: slice a piece of lemon, drop it into a glass of tea, then squeeze a few drops out with a spoon. I don't think this appliance of yours...
...University of Pennsylvania Hospital Diet Clinic, most popular diets are only temporarily effective in changing one's pattern of eating. The menu may turn out to be less important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...
Where troubles melt like lemon drops...
...symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops" are taking on the trappings of a full-time occupation...
...Suffolk home. "I knew the second I saw her." In fact, Mrs. Frost was so convinced that New York Cover Girl Karen Graham was going to be her daughter-in-law that she gave her some of Son David Frost's favorite recipes. "He likes my lemon meringue pie very strong, tart and lemony," advised Mum. As it turned out, Frost, 34, never got a chance to try Karen's culinary skills. Just two days before they were to be married by Evangelist Billy Graham in a Manhattan ceremony, Karen slipped away to Chicago and married Las Vegas...