Word: pullet
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...hired by the company was "totally unprepared. He came to me asking what the symbols were on one of the blueprints. I thought he was kidding, but found he was serious." Committee members also point to a Penn State student who referred to the prestigious journalism award as the "Pullet Surprise." "U.S. students, parents and taxpayers are investing billions of dollars a year in higher education," says Dave Schnittger, communications director of the HEWC, which will hold a hearing on the issue next week. "Someone has to ask what kind of return they're getting." --By Perry Bacon...
...more prosaic version traces marmalade to marmelo, the Portuguese word for quince, the original ingredient.) Leg of mutton is still known by its French name, gigot, though it is pronounced "jiggott." A superb chicken dish that sounds quintessentially Gaelic, how-towdie, is derived from the Old French hutaudeau, meaning pullet...
...President? My name is Fred Pullet and I represent an association of small chicken breeders. Me and the boys were flicking the feathers around and we got to wondering if you have any plans for the afternoon of June...
Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
...corners, chatting about home and family, pinching the waitresses as they arrive. Slowly the tempo of preparation rises. Cleavers whack, pots rattle, steam billows up. Jokes and insults fly like salt and pepper; the chef gives the back of his nasty old tongue to a cook caught pilfering a pullet; the broiler man tips a pot of boiling water off a rack and-YEEEOOOWWW...