Word: salad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campus that has its spiritual roots in ooze and Oz. Beyond a tiny little bridge spanning a tiny little stream, the two beautiful Young Marrieds find a tiny little dream house in which to adjust. Even their garbage is lovely, crisp and green as a garden-fresh salad. "Sometimes it's not so bad being poor, the way we're poor," says Richard...
...Angelis wisely saw that a shrewd operator could make a fortune out of two other Government programs: farm price supports and foreign aid. His idea: buy up the bulging soybean surplus, turn it into soybean oil, which is used for everything from salad dressing to paint, and ship the oil abroad-either privately or through the many Government aid programs. Between 1958 and 1962, De Angelis built a sprawling refinery in Bayonne and leased 139 oil storage tanks, many as tall as five-story buildings. Operating in a slippery, fiercely competitive industry, he outdid other companies by buying the most...
...poor Lebanese immigrants, Wessin is a rare bird among the fine-feathered Dominican officers. He prefers fatigues or suntans to fancy uniforms, scorns the usual fruit-salad decorations, and no one has ever accused him of growing rich on graft. He lives in a modest $12,000 concrete house with his wife and two sons, enjoys cockfighting and baseball. He is painfully shy among strangers, speaks only Spanish, and seldom says much. But he is a devout Catholic in a part of the world where males pay little attention to their religion, and he regards Communism with a bleak, uncompromising...
...Minimax snatched up cat food whether or not they had cats (the store finally had to assign a clerk to explain that the food was for cats; said one Italian shopper: "Then I'll get a cat"), bought up huge quantities of Kraft's "Italian" salad dressing and ripe olives canned...
...kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers" for lunch, it turns out to be thick chunks of roast round steak, rolls, iced tea, jalapenos, peas, fried potatoes, fruit cake, and cottage cheese salad...