Word: slab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soundly defeating the British at the Battle of Cowpens on Jan. 17, 1781. Cowpens, which celebrates Jan. 17 as the rest of the U.S. celebrates the Fourth of July, claimed that Winchester was not doing right by their hero. In Winchester, they charged, there is only a battered old slab over his grave...
...Have your griddle greased with a slab of bacon rind or some salt pork skin. Heat to the proper temperature to produce the deep orange glow so essential to the seductive pancake...
Then the colonel went to Ashland's Menard Hotel for a lake trout dinner. At the colonel's place was a slab of frosted cake the size of a page of the Chicago Tribune. Up in one corner fluttered a full-colored American flag - just as in the Trib. A four-column drawing of the colonel filled the center. And across the top were two red and black eight-column headlines: TRULY AMERICAN AND WELCOME...
...high winds of labor trouble, special-interest pressures, politicking and contradictory objectives whistling through Washington are already rattling the windows of Di Salle's office in a drab, slab building known as Tempo (for temporary) E. They may grow strong enough any day to blow down the whole stabilization shebang, Di Salle included...
...monks and novices live in a long file of cubicles, each about four feet across and just long enough to accommodate a narrow, iron-hard sleeping pallet. They do not sleep in their own coffins (as legend says Trappists once did), but the mattresses are hard as a slab in a city morgue. The 60 men are gradually learning the manual labor necessary to run a big estate. At the moment, most of them are hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They...