Word: salami
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...Over salami sandwiches and coffee, talk of logic machines and rocket fuels filled the evenings of the members of the "Speculative Society." During the succeeding years, the Society met now and then, here and there, discussing this and that...
Early Career: Born Sept. 10, 1887, near Pisa, to a family of modest means. His father was an accountant and a salami salesman. Forced to work to put himself through college, Gronchi joined the Catholic workers' movement while still a student, beginning a lifelong passion for politics; fought and was decorated three times for bravery in World...
...extracted eight articles from McCutchen on his life and times (BE "CAPTAIN COOK'S" GUEST, shouted the headlines). State fairs beseeched his appearance. Publishers begged him to write cookbooks. In a New York delicatessen, the proprietor refused to let him leave without a 3-ft. gift roll of salami. But from Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. came the most important response of all: Captain Richard S. McCutchen, USMC, was ordered to Washington to review the sunset parade and dine (on roast beef) amid the general's shimmering crystal. That almost equaled...
From other useful listings, the reader will learn that the Communists are particularly happy over the word krasniy, which means both red and beautiful in Russian; that salami tactics, a term originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used...
Hors d'Oeuvres: caviar, ham, roast beef, salted salmon, carp, sheep cheese, salami, potato salad, stuffed eggs, and fresh tomatoes with chopped green onion tops...