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Word: moistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolling cart or a table strategically placed near the entrance. "Some customers reserve their choices before ordering dinner because they know we run out of certain things," says Sam Rubin, owner of the seafood restaurant John Clancy's in Manhattan, where individual lemon meringue tarts ($6) and dense, moist chocolate velvet cake ($6) are among the first to go. Another trend: dessert samplers, with an assortment of up to seven different confections. Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of San Francisco's Square One, describes her $6.50 version as "a ritual platter, a little orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Let Them Eat Cake! | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...center in Calcutta in a former chemicals warehouse. The sisters have taught the method to 64,000 women in the Indian state of West Bengal. Teachers use everyday agricultural images to explain a woman's menstrual cycle: seeds are planted during the monsoon, when the soil is soft and moist; cows are inseminated when they produce mucus at the cervix, fertility's telltale sign. Some women who cannot afford pencil or paper dutifully chart their fertile days in simple symbols drawn with burned wood. In Brazil, Sister Cecilia heads an agency that runs 18 N.F.P. centers; she argues that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Life for Family Planning | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...appear, marred only occasionally by a lax waiter or an overdone duck. There are sublimely puffy lump-crabmeat cakes and tender veal chops with morels. Not to be missed: profiteroles filled with foie gras. The kitchen also serves an original version of pot-au-feu for which the succulently moist, tarragon- scented chicken arrives with leeks and angel-hair pasta, not in the traditional bowl with soup but on a plate mantled with a cream-and-chicken- stock sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Potlikker to Profiteroles | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...more." Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency say Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike is not meant to be used on the moist, hilly terrain of the eastern Andes. Warns Edgardo Machado, a Peruvian coca researcher: "The rain will drag the herbicide into the soil at lower levels of the valley, where there are farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Spike or Not to Spike? | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...talks of trying to "exfoliate the levels of flavor." Whatever that may mean, on the plate it translates into several engaging combinations, such as Impromptu Salad, made with wild greens, herbs and even berries of the season; satiny poached sablefish sauced with white wine and leeks; and delicately moist salmon with julienne vegetables and herbed mustard butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Dining North by Northwest | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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