Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days "lengthen" early in the year-essentially means spring. For Christians, it recalls Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness, and began to be observed no later than the 4th century. For medieval man, Lent was a grim, belt-tightening time: only one meal a day was permitted; meat, milk, eggs and cheese were forbidden foods...
...blindly opposed to negotiating about Viet Nam. But it will enter into negotiations only on the prospect that North Viet Nam will agree, in an enforceable pact, to withdraw its own aid to the Viet Cong Communists in return for U.S. withdrawal. "Concentrate," said Rusk, "on the meat of the matter. The meat of the matter is that Hanoi is sending these people and these arms into South Viet Nam contrary to every agreement and contrary to international law. Now if that problem is grappled with, then we can get into details. We can consider whether the meat involves...
...docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith of his infelicitous wife Felicity with a meat cleaver; and there is plump, blonde Jenny, who in her lifetime was known as a "hoor" among the townsfolk and who still plies her trade among the restless spirits. The novel is hardly more substantial...
...were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted by dancing spearsmen and was delightfully dive-bombed by an Ethiopian army plane. The bomb load was flower petals...
Divorced. Leslie Caron, 33, elfin French film star (The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose); by Peter Hall, 34 director-producer of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, her second husband (her first: Chicago Meat Heir George "Geordie" Hormel II): on uncontested grounds of adultery with Hollywood Actor Warren Beatty, who was ordered to pay court costs: after nine years of marriage, two children; in London...