Word: pemmican
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school. On Oh Word? Horovitz raps, "You gotta get up awful early to fool Mr. Furley/And that's word to Aunt Shirley/And you could stick your head in the toilet, give yourself a swirley." Yauch swiftly follows: "Like Ernest Shackleton said to Ord-Lees,/ 'I'll have dog pemmican with my tea.'" When the rhymes flow, the ideas buried within go down more smoothly, and on All Life Styles, their vision of hipster utopianism sounds both typically juvenile and wonderfully sweet: "Whether in the high rise where you live like Rhoda or in the shack and you live like Yoda/Once...
Buffalo Tongue. The book is a social history of New World food from Indian pemmican and succotash to the TV Dinner. Its basic approach is a soup-to-nuts chronology, including chapters on restaurants, drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...
...tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose is as dry and tough as pemmican. It turns a long historic outrage into a short, relentlessly unsentimental elegy...
...only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented as evidence were surprisingly clean considering that Arctic explorers seldom washed before or after eating their greasy pemmican...
...soup. Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in. tall. Mark Stanton, 10, crawled under the flap of an Indian hut, looked around and then popped a bit of pemmican into his mouth...