Word: roast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adventures, Li'l Abner and his friends are wriggled out of one difficulty only to fall into another. Victim of Capp's slightest whim, even Li'l Abner's pig must (barely) wriggle out of being turned into the Ecstasy Sauce that Bounder J. Roundheels must have for the Roast Rump of Tree Dwelling Elephant that will get him into the Gourmet's Club. From the first Sadie Hawkins' Day episode in which L'l Abner wriggles out of Daisy Mae's arms into those of a jackass, to the last where he is "hopelessly, permanently, (maybe) married," nothing...
Gathering one night last week at Augusta's Bon Air Hotel, just two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's vacation cottage, 700 Georgians and South Carolinians sat down to roast sirloin of baby beef and a large serving of the kind of speech-making that Ike deplores. Firing up the faithful: Democratic Senator-elect Herman Talmadge and his longtime mentor, Georgia Political Boss Roy V. Harris, who was being testimonialized for 35 years of service to his state...
Though Anthony Eden seems to be coming safely through his political crisis over Suez, Britain's economic day of reckoning is still to come. "It's easy enough to rally the roast-beef opinion of the country," said one disillusioned Tory last week, "but the fact is, we're in a helluva mess. We haven't a shred left in the Middle East, and not much anywhere else...
...hairless Xolo puppies were a leading source of meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera, who owns 45 hairless dogs, says he has eaten them and found them delicious...
Just as the opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...