Word: salad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical Keys dinner contains 1,000 calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine a la Marsala, fresh green beans, homemade Italian bread (no margarine or butter), cookies, a tossed salad (dressed with tarragon vinegar and corn oil), espresso coffee and fruit...
...Wall Street nabob and a man of many reactionary convictions, yet he swallowed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal whole. Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain on the eve of war, he broke emphatically with Roosevelt on the issue of U.S. involvement in World War II. In the salad days of the New Deal, Jack grew up, absorbing his father's ambiguous politics, listening to the famous men and women who gathered around the Kennedy dinner table, reading prodigiously on his own. Unlike many of his generation (Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, for example), he was untouched...
...this somewhat lengthy foolishness when he is not-means dialogue that is blithe and blithery: "'I don't want to go to Jane's,' said Maisie. 'She gets even drunker than I do. The last time I dined there, she sat in a fruit salad.' 'Perhaps she'll do it again if we hurry.' Michael gripped her firmly by the arm. 'Come along.'" Most readers will come along happily enough...
...constant lookout in restaurants and stores to see that no waiter palms off less than true blue Roquefort. Genuine Roquefort is a trademarked blue cheese made from ewe's milk and aged in caves near Roquefort, France. The association's amateur sleuths inspect grocery counters, sample Roquefort salad dressing in restaurants, keep a sharp nose to customs lists of cheese imports...
Since the Roquefort bloodhounds went to work 30 years ago, they have won more than 40 consent decrees against phony Roquefort salad dressings, brought a dozen suits against cow's-milk cheese passing as Roquefort. Two months ago the association won a U.S. district court temporary injunction against an importer's "Roquefort" cheese made in Hungary. Last week it won a satisfying victory: a consent decree and damages of $1,250 from San Francisco's famed Trader Vic restaurant for putting Danish blue cheese into Roquefort dressing. "Trader Vic's can afford it," explains the association...