Word: scampi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hotel has had only a handful of guests for the past several weeks, its chef hewed to his cordon bleu standards to the last. In the restaurant, thoughtfully shifted back into the most protected area of the hotel because of snipers, service and cuisine merited the usual three stars. Scampi, saumon fumé, salade Niçoise-almost the full menu was available. On Monday U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley was at one table, Christian Moderate Leader Ramond Edde near by at another. Shortly after 3, as Edde was finishing his coffee, an aide arrived to tell him the hotel...
...another table on that day, Jeb Magruder dined on scampi and still looked a little selfconscious. But Paul is nursing this early Watergate casualty back to full participation. When Magruder called to see if he could still get a reservation, Paul said, "Of course, Mr. Magruder, you still belong to Sans Souci...
...firms that have fallen on hard times. And times have been particularly hard for Italy's industry in the past three or four years. Under the impact of incessant strikes, inept management, stiffening foreign competition and generally dismal economic conditions, Italian companies have been disappearing as fast as scampi at a gondolier's picnic. About 1,500 plants closed in 1970 alone...
...only ones doing it. In response to a story alleging that shrimp are merely prawns of Japanese commercial interests, Assistant Art Director Arturo Cazeneuve sent out an interoffice memo: "As the kipper of high standards, I want to say just for the halibut that your story is rather scampi in detail." Conditions last week would have been even worse except for the temporary absence of our champion punster, Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer. In self-defense. Kanfer observes that puns show up in the most ancient writings, and "what was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare...