Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost an outright imitation of the Mustang, from its simple grille to its squat tail. Chevrolet says that the name is French, means "comrade" or "pal." Sniping competitors note that versions of the word also appear in Spanish. One of them means "shrimp" and another translates as "loose bowels...
Pralines & Pompano. The young orchestra (average age: 33), when not involved in its programs or teaching 80 students at the festival's music school, is having a jolly good bash. Festival patrons have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture...
...dollars a year is going into such specialty foods, and virtually every self-educated epicure in the country today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same...
...State Store," once an elegant French department store, offers secondhand violins, guitars, and there are tennis rackets, jerseys and soccer boots for the boys who still gambol under the Red River Bridge. But there are also shortages, and some inflation, notably in the price of fish, shrimp, fruit and vegetables...
...missionary in Kerala, India for 17 years, I disagree that "the vast majority" of the catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...