Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that we tend to get on the bandwagon when a fad, like fitness, becomes popular. Nonetheless, we are a people who can laugh at ourselves. Long may our arms wave-and our feet pound the country roads and the park paths...
...with simplicities like fruit flans and potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy in Lorraine; the word restaurant originated in Paris more than 200 years...
...Union servers aren't the only ones who fail to make the connection between the 6-ft., 3-in., 200-pound senior and the right side of Harvard's defensive line. A supervisor at Lamont for the past two years, whittington laughs, "At Lamont I get people calling me to work for them Saturday afternoon, because they want to go to the game." He has a previous commitment, he tells the callers...
...three-and-one-half hour meeting at Pound Hall that was closed to the public, the editors decided to take race into account in some manner when selecting new Review editors but postponed a decision on any specific plan until December 2, Mark B. Helm '78, president of the Review, said after the meeting...
What insane lawyer would take such a devil of a case? The sisters find him in an Ole Miss grad (Peter MacNicol) who was smitten with Babe when she once served him pound cake at a church bazaar. Besides, he relishes "personal vendettas...