Word: oyster
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...went over to Adams," said one of the boys," and they had oyster stew. Now of course I figured it was the usual gruel, but there were real oysters. And they had a fresh fruit salad...
...global striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy...
From Haymarket Square you can go on down Hanover Street through Little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that, you cross the river, past the Navy Yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston any more
...Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...
...inspect such scenic wonders of TV as the reason-why-sell, the inverse commercial, the collective think, the built-in crowd. He also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power to make people crawl...