Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many observers took all this with more than a grain of salt. Heavy Nazi infiltrations have long been reported in French Morocco. Fortnight ago it was said that French North African troops had crossed the Sahara to a camp near the De Gaullist headquarters around Lake Chad...
Jellied Eel Salad. Ingredients: 4-lb. eel, 2 bay leaves, 8 whole allspice, 6 cloves, 2 lemon slices, ½ tsp. salt, ¼ tsp. pepper, unflavored gelatin, horseradish sauce. Directions: skin and clean eel. Cut on bias into 1-inch lengths. Cover with cold water, heat to boiling, skim and add remaining ingredients except gelatin. Simmer until eel is tender, about 1 hour...
...doing the same. Until November a British containing force cruised outside the spacious (15 sq. mi.), deep harbor of Fort de France, bottling up the French warships inside: the old, waddly carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Bertin, a few lesser ships, and U.S. warplanes-now partly dismantled, salt-bitten, obsolescent but still useful if they were overhauled-which the Béarn had brought...
While California's Governor Olson held conference and OPM's Eli Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...
...Haynes, who had always had trouble with his soup, invented an automatic soup bowl that took care of everything. A thermometer on pulley and chain dipped in & out to register temperature, and turned on a bulb cooler when the soup piped too hot. Other gadgets dunked crack ers, sprinkled salt, swabbed the last drop...