Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...
...most of Author Berry's exotic, expertly written comic novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so he says) for 237 years: "Copulate every day of your life." Most of the book's exuberant humor arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil...
Harvard stands alone in its policy of unlimited second food servings. Yale forbids second servings on sirloin steak, roast beef, or lamb chops, plus some fruit juices or salads; other colleges forbid students to obtain any additional helpings without payment...
...helicopter, accompanied only by their interpreters and secret-service details. Their principal aides-Secretary of State Christian Herter and Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov-also helicoptered together. First evening the two parties sat down to a roast beef dinner, afterwards watched U.S. Navy movies taken on the North Pole trip of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, and also took in a western movie. The sleeping arrangements: Eisenhower, Herter, Khrushchev, Gromyko had adjoining single rooms in the south wing of Camp David's main residence, Aspen Lodge...
Some places, people dine at noon; in Cambridge, it is the hour of decision. In this case, one man's steak is another man's roast beef. Arthur Schlesinger's History 169 (Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harry Levin's English 126 (Harvard 4), and Perry Miller's Hum 111 (Sever 18) are the competing extravaganzas...