Word: salads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loading Time. No one ate very much lunch (a cold salad of macaroni and ham). At 2:45 p.m. the boat teams prepared to go over the side. I joined Captain Jaskilka's people. We stood there waiting for our wave to load into the landing craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground...
...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
...about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist ice cream and potato salad...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...