Word: semolina
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...process begins in huge vats, where water is mixed with the coarse- grained durum wheatmeal called semolina that gives Italian pasta its uniquely toothsome texture and flavor. The resultant crumbly paste is then extruded through bronze bar molds pierced with openings to produce the desired shape. For the long strands of pasta that have holes in the center (so they will cook more evenly), the paste is forced through ring-shaped openings around center cores that make the final product hollow...
...Semolina (16) pilchard (17) climbing up the Eiffel Tower. (18) Elementary penguin (19) singing Hare Krishna man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen...
...Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding. 17) literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating the hippie ethics. 18) to jump? 19) the Penguin textbook editions; here means people who haven't read farther. The word is actually plural in the song...
...several other cases in which the rod was not spared. Two Southampton schoolboys were given 21 strokes because they incorrectly spelled "meringue." A teacher admitted beating a seven-year-old girl "red and raw" because she was "work-resistant." Three girls were caned because they forgot to bring semolina to a cooking class...
...until he realized that "so far from being socialist, the system that had finally become established in Russia was a particularly vicious form of fascism." Through one of the youthful patients, Tarsis bitterly asks: "What is Communism?" His answer: "The apotheosis of drabness, the negation of personality, life on semolina gruel in a one-room flat with a bathroom-lavatory and a combination divan-bed-cupboard-desk-bookcase...