Word: potful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time around, however, a new ingredient has been added to the pot of Cambridge politics: whether it will much change the flavor or the outcome remains to be seen. The new ingredient is rent control, which the council defeated this summer by a five to four vote while two hundred rent control backers sat in the chambers and fumed. Once outside the rent control advocates vowed to venge themselves in November on the "faithless five" -their term for the five councilors who voted against the rent control bill...
With the Cambridge elections less than a week away, City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci last night decided to take a few pot-shots at one of his tried-and-true targets-Harvard University...
...Pot and Potted. Alice, who got her start as a sous-chef in the kitchen of a girls' reformatory in Hawthorne, N.Y. ("I was a rotten kid"), dismisses international cuisine in four sentences. "Don't be intimidated by foreign cookery," she writes. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." She is similarly cavalier about the tools of her trade. "Other books say, 'Do not, do not! Do not try to make...
...iconoclasm, Alice hews to a couple of basic rules for her cookery. For one: "You have to have one really big pot, something you can boil macaroni and rice in, cook corn-on-cob in, wash your hair in, wash your dog in. Get one that's big enough so that a mop will fit." For another: "Wine and liquor are great for cooking, and also for the cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell...
...than return to sugar products," says Marvin Eisenstadt, an official of Cumberland Packing Corp., producers of Sweet 'N Low, a sugar substitute made of saccharin and a cyclamate. It is unlikely, however, that dieters will switch to saccharin, since it often leaves a bitter taste. Obviously a big pot of sugar awaits the inventor who can formulate a new product that is safe, sweet and noncaloric...