Word: roasting
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...whole Bicentennial staff, which celebrated the completion of the project by drinking toasts and eating roast beef at New York City's pre-Revolutionary Fraunces Tavern, this issue has been partly an exercise in historical imagination and partly an inspiration. As an introduction to the special issue puts it, "At a time when Americans are questioning the very meaning of their nation's basic beliefs, it is refreshing and reassuring to return to our origins, to our fundamental values, and to try to illuminate how earlier Americans saw the world and their place...
...some Australian pros bring with them when they play in the U.S. Interviewing Newcombe at a tournament in Tucson, Ariz., Rosenstein observed that despite an outward display of confidence, "he was taking Connors very seriously." The clue: an uncharacteristic glass of milk instead of beer with Newcombe's roast beef sandwich...
...celebrators, many making their first trip into the tubes, were treated to something more than usual subway fare: 50 Ibs. of octopus flown in from the Bahamas, 50 dozen oysters from Virginia, five 30-lb. lobsters from Nova Scotia, a 20-lb. Alaskan king crab, 100-lb. rounds of roast beef from Omaha and pastry fantasies as arcane as Ken Russell's own visions. By the subway entrances sat an 8-ft.-long Tommy sign fashioned from 3,000 tomatoes, radishes, cauliflowers and broccoli...
Then there is the myth of the homesick. While typing out a 20-page paper in the sterile gloomth of his monastic room, with its poster less walls and chill dampness, this student becomes lost in visions of refrigerators crammed with roast beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle...
...leaves them feeling unsatisfied. Norris looks up from his roast beef: he, too, admits to no exaggerated enthusiasm for his clever grandfather's astronomic prowess. As Ross recalls the happy evenings spent in collective star-gazing. Norris nods his head...