Word: paree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recipe: Pare and core two baking apples and slice into eight wedges each. Sift 1½ cups of flour with 1 tsp. salt, cut in ½ cup shortening. Moisten with 4 or 5 tbs. of cold water. Roll out into 16-in. by 10-in. rectangle and cut into 16 10-in. by 1-in. strips. Wrap one strip around each apple slice. Arrange, without touching sides, in 13-in. by 9-in. by 2-in. baking pan. Brush with ⅓ cup melted butter; sprinkle with ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of water over...
...Salim as Sabah of Kuwait sometimes has prodigious company with his meals. On his oil-born annual income of $260 million, the number of guests he could see around him at a given dinner party is limited only by the geographical horizon. But even so, sheiks do have to pare their invitation lists, which explains why Abdullah of Kuwait has ordered-from West Germany's Vereinigte Werkstaetten furniture makers-only 200 straight-backed, 14-carat, gold-plated dining-room chairs...
...year since July 1954. To help work off the rest of the load, Detroit carefully held back from rushing in to replenish dealer stocks, allowed shortages to develop in some lines of convertibles and station wagons. Looking ahead, the industry anticipated that July, August, September and October would pare inventories to new lows and clear the showrooms for new models...
...Agreements Act, originally passed in 1934 and extended ten times since. Taking a long stride toward freer trade and away from isolationism, the House extended the act for five years instead of the previous maximum of three, granted the President broader trade powers than ever before, including authority to pare tariffs by as much as 10% in a single year (but not more than 25% over the five years). "This is an historic action," said Arkansas Democrat Wilbur D. Mills, the Democratic strategist who guided the bill to victory. "It tells the world that we are not pulling back...
Auto sales, which had poked along in May, showed a sudden 13% spurt in the last ten days and pushed the month's totals to 394,000 units, the best level of the year. With good weather helping sales, dealers managed to pare their inventories to 755,000 cars...