Word: skewered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would close the gap. He found it necessary to increase his menaces against the "antiparty" group, and to blame them for the defects in Soviet planning. Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, by opposing his virgin lands development, gave him a beautiful issue on which he can and does skewer them...
...Experienced ox-roasters were hard to come by after years of meat rationing, but here & there villages found oldtimers who remembered from coronations past how to skewer a beast and cook him whole, Tudor style, on the town common...
Having impressed your date with a command of Middle Eastern appetizers, allow her admiration no rest. Launch into the entree. The basic meat in these restaurants is lamb, especially when broiled on a skewer with layers of onion, tomato, and green papers. Called Souvlakia at the Athens, Shashlik in Russian restaurants, and Shish-Kabab most everywhere else, the chunks of lamb are sauteed in olive oil and rigone. Before serving, onions are added for pungency. The meat is succulent with natural juice and the combined effect of onions and a pronounced tang of rigone...
...standard in Britain and took the title of Roman Emperor. Title, of course, was not possession, but it was nice for a start, and Honorius was too far away to dispute it. But when the new "emperor" refused to play ball with Gratianus, the old merchant persuaded Maria to skewer him while...
...Limit has a wholly unprofessional air. Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony of creation belongs...