Word: salmone
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...shipments of food and small luxuries are getting through. In 1941 and 1942 the Red Cross forwarded $6,000,000 worth of supplies to United Nations prisoners and U.S. civilian internees. The standard package for prisoners: powdered milk, cheese, oleomargarine, corned beef, pork, liver pâté, canned salmon, dried prunes, orange concentrate, biscuits, chocolate bars, sugar, Nescafé, cigarets. Also welcome : eight tons of insecticide...
...story reaches a furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...
...mention of the word "food" reminded me of my erstwhile hunger, so I called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon...
...Civil War cost $3,348,369,000 (only 3% of next year's war budget): the U.S., which did not then know better, financed it through inflation. Secretary Salmon P. Chase sold bonds to banks, issued $450,000,000 in greenbacks (which dropped to 35?), finally called in Financier Jay Cooke to save the day-at a handsome commission...
...norms were increased, apartments went unheated, electricity was turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas of Dyed Moross (Granddad Frost). There was no smoked salmon, no pickled herring, no goose, no vodka, no coffee for the grownups. But there was rejoicing. The Rodina (Motherland) had been saved for the second time in two years and now victory and peace could...