Word: mussels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Health Ministry officials blamed the outbreak (at week's end it had not yet reached epidemic proportions) not on contaminated drinking water, but on shellfish. Most of the victims, they explained, had eaten mussels, which were apparently taken from polluted waters around Italy and in North Africa. To prevent the disease from spreading any further, officials banned the sale and importation of shellfish throughout Italy and ordered large mussel beds in the Bay of Naples destroyed...
...foods attempted by every French class at one time or another. Prices at Fromage Import are very reasonable--for under $2 you can get one of the specialties, a salad and a beverage ranging from mineral water to apple beer. A serving of mushroom, bacon, feta, chive, ham, spinach, mussel or ratatouille quiche is 95 cents. Even without your French class, a "field trip" to Fromage Import is worth...
From wishes, they progressed to comparisons ("A witch's coat is like a mussel's shell"), then to dreams and lies ("I was born nowhere/And I live in a tree."). The next step led to lines beginning "I used to . . ." alternated with "But now I . . ." This especially charmed the kids, perhaps because it reminded them of their own constant physical change. First-Grader Andrea Dockery offered a typical thought...