Word: salamis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State threw out the first ball-with a weak delivery-and then laughed as hard as anyone else when a few good-natured Bronx cheers echoed in the night. After the game, won by the National League, 6-3, Kissinger went down into the dressing rooms, munched some salami and recalled that when he was growing up in New York City his team had been the Yankees. "Joe DiMaggio was my favorite player," he said, "and I always admired Tommy Henrich, the way he hit in the clutch...
...beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle on the side (Mom and Dad have gone to sleep an hour ago). A high school friend stops by to smoke cigarettes and reminisce about old escapades. Vacation finally rolls around, and it's off to home. There are only Doris Day and Rock...
...thing, says the vivacious Leah Rabin with a sniff, living next to Dayan was noisy because his motorcade was constantly careening around in front of their house. Her husband, by contrast, is a shy man of simple tastes who "eats only for nourishment" and has a preference for salami. As for clothing, groans Leah, "God forbid that his suits should be too modern or the lapels too wide or the cuffs too flared...
...work as advertised. The basketball player and what's-his-name unseal the reader's memory with a Tinker Toy assortment of mnemonic links and pegs. Assume, they say, that you want to memorize a random list of ten words: airplane, tree, envelope, earring, bucket, thing, basketball, salami, star, nose. Form a series of visual incongruities-a tree riding in an airplane, say, and then another picture of envelopes growing on trees, and another one in which millions of earrings fly out of the envelopes, and so on. The more grotesque and childish the mental picture, the stronger...
Polizzi has joined 1,100 of the area's 1,500 families in a nonprofit development corporation to guide the future of the area. In its four years' existence, the corporation has found 60 jobs for new -and old-residents in the neighborhood's salami and macaroni factories, tool company and glass factory. It has set up a summer youth program and hired students at $1 an hour to spruce up the area. The students redecorated the Hill's hydrants and trash cans in red, white and green (the colors of the Italian flag). More than...