Word: poached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even by some doctors...
...late start. She was 52 and a widow when she wrote her first cookbook. It began in a small way when she made up a list of recipes for her children, who were about to be married. "I realized," says Mrs. Rombauer, "they didn't know how to poach an egg." This sudden realization turned into a privately printed book that sold 3,000, copies, assured many an egg of perfect poaching. Mrs. Rombauer's expert, explicit manner of writing recipes is nearly baffle-proof. Of the various edi tions, over 12,000 have been sold...