Word: roasting
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...rest of the action, well, there was nothing to write home about, and certainly nothing worth ruining a good pot roast...
...people who left Saturday's Harvard-Army game early to beat the traffic probably went home and sat down to their Yankee Doodle pot roast and apple pie and left football out of their dinner-table discussion on how nice the Military Academy looked as the leaves begin to change, how nice the Cadets all looked in their crisp uniforms and shiny shoes and how nice it would be to win a nuclear...
Three weeks ago, about 50 friends of Robert Hormats', retiring Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, gave him a farewell roast at Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Hormats, at 39, is a grand old man of global negotiating. To send him off they showed pictures from his twelve years in Government: Hormats with Pope Paul VI, Hormats with Jerry Ford, Hormats with Nelson Rockefeller. The evening's message was mellow and misty and it said one thing: Bob Hormats could not do what he has done any place else, and when he's earned a little...
...father's favorite quote was from the Bible," Democratic Senatorial Candidate Mark Dayton, 35, told voters at a Minnesota pig roast. "To whomsoever much has been given, of him shall much be required." There is no doubt that to Dayton much has been given. Married to a Rockefeller and heir to a department-store fortune, he is dispensing large chunks of his assets (estimated as high as $30 million) to unseat Republican David Durenberger, 48, in November...
...aware that pizzlesprung is a Kentucky word to describe the weary, or that nutation is the wobble in the earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that there was a time when the head of the house didn't simply carve the roast but allayed a pheasant, reared a goose, minced a plover, dismembered a hen or disfigured a peacock...