Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases where both taste and smell were affected, the patients suffered more intensely. A 48-year-old professional soldier who developed hypogeusia following an intestinal operation found himself unable to stand the taste or smell of most foods. A 53-year-old pizza maker said that many foods "smelled or tasted like manure or decayed garbage." He had to quit his job and limit himself to a bland diet. Some victims became so depressed that they contemplated suicide...
...exotic: carrot cupcakes, sunflower-seed cookies and countless varieties of honey, including alfalfa, avocado, tupelo blossom, eucalyptus, mesquite and thistle. Manhattan's Good Earth market offers 13 varieties of dates (among them Halawy, Khadrawy and Zahidi*), three types of yogurt, including goat, organic ice cream and pizza and 125 types of herbal teas. The strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and chicken can hardly be distinguished from those in conventional markets-except, aficionados insist, by healthfulness and taste. The most striking difference is price: 25% to 50% more than regular foods...
Richard Brown, 33, was an aeronautical engineer for ten years at a nearby Boeing aircraft plant?before he was laid off. Now he spends his days putting silk-screen designs on T shirts, which he sells. For a pizza-parlor promotion, he prints a picture of a little pizza baker on the shirt; for a hippie head shop he paints a marijuana cigarette design. Brown has given up hope of soon finding another job in his own field; he has not even written a resume. To conserve money, he and his wife spend nothing on entertainment, use powdered milk exclusively...
During a beer and pizza party following the discussion-the deans had gone without dinner-they issued the following statement...
Bertha Cohen died five years ago, with over $1 million in her checking account. She owned property and stocks totaling almost $3 million. Her properties included such familiar landmarks as the Cambridge Tower of Pizza, Cahaly's Delicatessen, University Typewriter Co. and Margaret's Dress Shop...