Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast (mutton chops) was followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...bright, and on the North's few tilled acres, the warming sun, shining 20 hours a day, produces dahlias as big as dinner plates, carrots a foot long. The dry air slows decay. In 1954 the crew of the Canadian icebreaker Labrador found tins of perfectly preserved mutton, figs, and Normandy pippins left on Dealy Island...
...their captive patrons. Suggestions from undergraduates are welcome--in fact, Sunday night's blueberry pancakes were suggested by a group of Lowell House members. Other indications of likes and dislikes are considered. "We found the Student Council poll very helpful in determining undergraduate preferences and tastes," Mr. Lane claims. Mutton, which received a very low rating on the poll, has appeared only rarely on menus this year; on the other hand, the more popular entrees have tended to appear with monotonous regularity...
Gertrude's childhood, while not precisely happy or secure, was not unusual. The Steins took their children abroad for four years, where governesses and tutors worked to give them a European education. Miss Stein remembered having French bread with mutton soup for breakfast and always maintained that Paris got into her blood during that period...
...chief virtues about the House dining halls has been the abundance of catsup to cover bare mutton or veal. The Central Kitchen creation seldom are inspiring and meat in its naked glory can be very discouraging. But catsup is now regrettably rationed and cranberry sauce is as rare these days as caviar. The rather gelatinous stuffing which dresses up pork as well as fowl provides no real substitute for the jelly on chicken or turkey...