Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the play suddenly goes to pot as a thriller by trying to be something more than that. The characters start acting noble, the conversation turns rich and strange, the situation slowly drains away. The sad thing is not that the ending lacks punch, but that it altogether lacks point...
...case the Republication charge that the President was motivated by political considerations should provide limitless merriment to those who like to sit on the sidelines and watch the pot calling the kettle black...
...guns were primed for just such game. Compared with Harry Truman's friend Ed Pauley, who had 500,000 bushels of grain and a lot of other commodities (TIME, Dec. 22), the White House physician was a relatively small target, but he was probably in for some congressional pot-shooting, nevertheless...
Palo & Piñata. This week, as always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
Maman, as pretty as ever at 48, thought most about le réveillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor...