Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liked to run across the fields in the evening, trying to catch the setting sun. At 19, she had produced several albums of verse and a "handsome bosom" that disputed for attention with dark smoldering eyes. At 24, she married Edward Wortley, coldly handsome grandson of the Earl of Sandwich, who seemed more interested in money than in Mary. Even so, she wrote him hearty letters of political encouragement: "The Ministry is like a play at Court; there's a little door to get in, and a great Croud without, shoveing and thrusting who shall be foremost; people that...
...Labyrinth. The first book requires a child to look at a drawing, then answer such questions as "Am I an ant?" or to circle the right word in distinguishing between mat and man. New letters are introduced, and by Book 7 he can handle such words as sandwich, haystack and yesterday. Each step requires the child to either make a yes-no choice, select the words to complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals...
...that the problem should be that foreign to Americans. A Western sandwich isn't a Western out West: it's a Denver. California hamburgers are called doubleburgers in California; baked Alaskas are almost unheard of in Alaska; the grass is not blue in Kentucky; and in New York, a New York cut is called a boneless sirloin...
Umbrellas are considered practical items, not usually objects for beautification. Some manufacturers have strewn them with flowers or polka dots, but the steady demand is for the ubiquitous black number-as exciting as an American cheese sandwich...
...fragrant wagons of the noodle vendors, trailing plumes of steam in the neon sunset. Then come the girls-300,000 of them-to work in the 3,000 clubs of Tokyo's six sakaba (drinking quarters). Wispy-bearded Santa Clauses, a legacy of the American occupation, parade in sandwich boards that proclaim the virtues (or lack of them) of such establishments as Le Rat Mort and the Eyebrow Club, Romance Town and the Club Bum Bum Room. Finally come the customers-Japanese businessmen and executives, laden with yen and the ghosts of bonenkai past...