Word: liming
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...busy for him, even at this hour. A thin man with a bad crossbite is drinking black coffee and waiting for a blueberry muffin, another guy with a German accent is hunched over a plate of fried eggs and toast, and a third customer is sipping at a lime rickey and watching his raw hamburger patty start to smolder. That's close to capacity for The Tasty--only three or four stools around the tiny counter are empty. But that Kennedy St. counter, sandwiched between Varsity Liquor and the Wursthaus, is the only restaurant in the Square that does business...
...counterman goes to a sink by the pay phone to wash his hands, and the man with the crossbite drinks down the rest of his cup. It is now 4:15--time to leave the Tasty--so the other customer finishes off his lime rickey, pays his bill, and walks out the door...
...screamed. "My God, who will help me? All my sons are gone. My husband is gone. What am I going to do? God-oh, my God!" Those who could recognize their murdered relatives were allowed to carry them away for private burial; the remainder of the bodies, sprinkled with lime, were consigned to mass graves...
...mores of the late 19th century middle classes in America. Her novel is dense with such tiresome detail as the Zinn family's favorite books (Blanche of the Brandywine and Polly Peablossom's Wedding), songs (What Is Home Without a Mother?) and underarm deodorant (chloride of lime and powdered salicylic acid). Oates' heroines quote liberally from the world's worst verse, culled by the author from such works as The Ladies' Wreath, a Magazine Devoted to Literature, Industry and Religion. But what the women in A Bloodsmoor Romance seem to do most is knit, embroider...
When the journalist Faye Levine '65 considers her days at Radcliffe, she wastes no time in recalling the response she received to a Crimson article called "The Three Flavors of Radcliffe," a wretched piece of pop-sociology which said Radcliffe students were all peach, chocolate, or lime (a breakdown that corresponds roughly to today's preppies, nerds, and flakes...