Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lake City. Every day, the hijackers called the control tower for food and newspapers, as if ordering from room service. "What's for lunch?" they asked. "Cheese and jam sandwiches," the tower replied on one occasion. "Oh, no," the hijacker complained. "No more cheese and jam sandwiches. We want meat, something with meat." Airport authorities reportedly sent 80 portions of chicken and rice, 80 salads and 80 coconut cakes to the plane. Later in the week, they sent 80 small jars of jam, 80 packs of butter and the same number of bread rolls. In his cockpit interview, Testrake remarked...
...Berger's 1977 Who Is Teddy Villanova? Wren's invincible innocence would seem a poor recommendation for the job. But as his recruiter points out, "Obviously if you've survived in New York City you know how to lie and cheat and dissemble: spying should be just your meat." Wren goes off to more of a welcome than he bargains for from Olga, the Amazonian ringleader of the Liberation Front, and less help than he needs from Clyde McCoy, American drunk and pornographer, the Firm's resident operative in Saint Sebastian...
Unaccountably, Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
...Dowayo language, which has four tones that affect meaning, is devilishly hard to get right. Barley tries to tell an important Dowayo, "I am cooking some meat," but the pitch is wrong, and his statement comes out as "I am copulating with the blacksmith." Everywhere he goes, the newcomer finds himself enmeshed in African webs of social obligation. Each time he gets into his car, a dozen villagers appear with luggage. All expect to be given a ride, plus money to spend, and most can be counted on to vomit inside the car at some point during the trip. Many...
...Move has pretended to reject modern technology, but has embraced it readily enough in the form of weapons. Move's beliefs have never seemed quite comprehensible, manifested as they are in an unfocused principle that natural processes should not be disturbed. Translated, that means anything from eating raw meat to forgoing artificial heat...