Word: shrimping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young, who had to make do with the hoses and plastic bags aboard the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, will probably be particularly...
...Khrushchev in 1955: "We wish to live in peace, tranquillity. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle...
...drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition, and attracted by huge potential profits (top retail value of a ton of pot is $1.6 million), some of the local shrimp fishermen are entering the business, though it remains controlled by Latin Americans and Cuban Americans...
...ordered his advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched in astonishing ways, and Spear prescribes 29 fish soups and stews that elongate budgets while widening nostrils. For the more extravagant, two of her finny finest: shrimp with melon in kirsch, and the New Orleans oyster loaf known as la Médiatrice, which errant husbands used to bring home to placate spouses after a night on the town...
Each team produces representative national dishes. The runners-up this year were Australia (smoked lamb in eucalyptus leaves, sautéed shrimp on fish patties in hollandaise sauce) and South Korea (rolled beef, stuffed duck with apple rings and chestnuts). The Americans produced sea bass stuffed with crabmeat and fried in batter; also, turkey breast stuffed with Virginia ham, liver and giblets, then baked and served rollatine. Both dishes took months to perfect but cost less than $3 a serving to prepare, not including labor costs. Explained Richard Schneider, a New Jersey restaurateur: "We have to be bottom-line conscious...