Word: shades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this central fact is built the snail merchandising profession. Cadart tells how snails are collected in the wild or raised in breeding establishments. In summer they are placed in "parks" (which date back to Roman times) and provided with shade and moisture. They are fed cabbage or other nourishing food and given loose soil to dig in. The idea is to bring them to bouchage in top condition. Fat and healthy, they dig their nests and seal themselves in for the winter. Then the snail breeders dig them up and ship them to buyers. When snails are broiled, the mucus...
...trees too have long been a breeding place for all manner of vermin, and I suggest that they be removed at an early date. Shade could still be provided by suspending plastic louvers from steel pylons, and a link with tradition maintained by scattering among them a few clay pigeons and stuffed squirrels. Gerald Robinson...
...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...
...into London at the rate of 1,000 a day. bought out (through June) Stratford's Shakespeare fete, booked all available accommodations for the late summer (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) Edinburgh Festival. In Madrid all hotels were filled, and at the bullfights, Americans sat in the best seats (shade). At 11 o'clock one night last week, no fewer than 75 Americans were happily throwing coins into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain, thus, according to legend, ensuring a return trip...
...develop "an insatiable appetite for tabulation" and the determination to write nothing that he could not back up. His inability to talk back fast and deep-rooted fear of sudden criticism made him a wary recluse who spent year upon year building impregnable fortresses. Author Irvine is a shade sharp with Novelist Samuel Butler, who, like Shaw after him, quarreled with the theory of natural selection because it attributed the survival and development of species more to luck than cunning and paid no tribute to the power of the will. Yet Darwin's own calculated struggle is like...