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...Bykovsky soared through his orbit, at a speed of 18,000 m.p.h. and in an oval that ranged from 109 miles to 139 miles above the earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member...
...product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...Palace, 30 colorfully garbed African heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles...
...with the baggage check?" He put it in his pants pocket, that's what, and he forgot to take it out when he gave the pants to Capannelle. And that was a mistake. Because one day when Capannelle is feeling particularly peaked, when visions of roast woodcock are dancing in the old clown's head, he just happens to find that baggage check. Now of course Capannelle would never dream of doublecrossing his confederates, not even for $130,000 worth of groceries. But it seems there is no honor among tapeworms...
There was a mad rush to get the place ready for last week's gala opening, and guests were somewhat surprised to find that the showers worked, sheets were on the beds, and the roast beef in the dining room was not bad at all. But without its two major attractions, Walker Hill, in all its Motel Modrun splendor, was still half empty. Because of the junta's slogan, "Austerity for Progress," South Koreans were not allowed inside unless they came as guests of foreigners. This policy might have to be changed. As one observer...