Word: sloshes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROMAGNOLIS' TABLE. PBS, Sundays 7:00 p.m. E.D.T. For the viewer-cook inclined to split piselli, it must be said that Pa and Ma (Italian-born Franco and Irish-English Margaret) Romagnoli are a bit offhand. He says add a cup of vinegar, but what he does is slosh a slug of it into a wineglass, eye it with a shrug, and toss it in. A few Romagnoli dishes - hot Swiss chard with olive oil, spareribs and sausages mired in thick sauce - are the sort of thing only an Italian mama could love. But these are piffling objections. This...
...watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
...dollar. It would be gradually replaced by Special Drawing Rights ("paper gold") as the major currency that nations use to settle debts among themselves. This would enable the International Monetary Fund, which issues SDRs, to use them to buy up the billions of loose dollars that now slosh disruptively from country to country...
...THREE MEN claimed that they would revolutionize what other activists of the era had completely ignored--the field of English painting. Their rallying cry was "death to slosh," a pun on the name of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the most prestigious art school in England, the Royal Academy. The battle against its sterile and rule-ridden art had begun, they proclaimed. The youthful and enthusiastic threesome--Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, and William Hunt--soon attracted the amazed attention of staid Victorians. For the public, they merely signed their paintings and publications with the mysterious initials...
...born or foreign educated, they jet about the world constantly, moving from one vineyard to another in search of new tastes and bouquets. Vintners treat them like pashas. Wine pros frequently interrupt their travels to get together for comparative wine tastings (during which they seldom swallow the wine, but slosh it around in their mouths and spit it out; they can taste dozens of wines at a sitting without getting high...