Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field action, the Club has lined up sorority parties at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles, and its first West Coast "Pig Roast." The ruggers also cited a visit to Disney land as a necessity to their training program...
...musical work determined the menu. These delicate musical relationships, hesitant at first, had bit by bit been transformed into invariable ritual, even if it occasionally happened that the sudden decay of a tournedos necessitated the replacement of Rossini by Mahler, and the tournedos by a Bavarian pot roast...
...story of his attempted suicide. Perched at the window, Berle was about to leap. He was discovered by his secretary, who begged him not to jump and said, "Let's order some turkey." Berle looked away, inconsolable, then slowly turned his head and asked, "See if they got roast beef?" -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Marcia Gauger/Boston
...Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on their heads. The foreigners wail and gnash their teeth as they hurl their inventories against the impenetrable American trade barriers. The American economy waves smugly to the rest of the world, then settles in to savor a bit of roast beef and full employment...
...notion that the PLO invited its own destruction and dispersion in order to "roast the Israelis on the spit of world opinion" is, more than anything, extremely humorous; It is also bellied by Sharon's openly stated aims, made public after the war (see the interview with Orion Fallacy from September), most of which are unabashedly aggressive...