Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely during the court's summer recess to turn up anywhere, turned up in Australia hobnobbing with outbackers. After a week's trial of aboriginal delicacies, he was still in ruddy good health. Sample daily menu: scrambled turtle eggs for breakfast, stuffed high-jumping wallaby for lunch, roast flying fox (an outsize bat) for dinner...
Says Thomson: "Unusual works have more news value than Toscanini. The history of music is the history of composition, not performance. There is great validity in the constant performance of classical music, but the real news is deviation from the routine. For instance, I might be very fond of roast beef, but as food editor, I would find it exceedingly difficult to write very many interesting articles about the taste of roast beef...
...wide and windy balcony overlooking the dirty Pasig River, the Senators and Congressmen affably downed a hearty dinner of turtle soup, egg. roast beef and ice cream. Then Magsaysay handed his statement of principles to Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, president of both the party and the Senate, who read it to the group...
...Roast in the Can. Low-priced canned beef will soon be put on the market by Swift, Armour and Hormel to capitalize on the recent drop in beef prices and an anticipated fall surplus of low-grade beef. The chopped-beef luncheon meat will resemble Spam, is expected to sell for 37? to 39? per 12-oz. can (v. about 47? for Spam...
...grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot. They covered 22 long miles before they sat down before the club's roaring fireplace for a dinner of roast ham and baked beans...