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Word: slurped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerr is entertaining, but his casual, anything-for-a-laugh approach can only confuse his less-experienced students. He never uses a measuring cup and knocks Fanny Farmer for her chemistry-class precision. But how are his viewers going to know that a Kerr "short slurp" equals one fluid ounce or that "one glug" means one and a half? Julia Child, appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Kitsch in the Kitchen | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...pussycats about buying pet food; supermarkets now offer her some 124 canned, dry or semi-moist varieties from which to choose. Most companies test their products on their own cats and dogs. At its pet-care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Four-Legged Epicures | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...Toronto recently bought one for some $4,000, students at Toronto's Central Technical High School looked at it with a hungry eye. What a hamburger needs, they reasoned, is ketchup. Someone sent out for a bottle of Heinz; in less time than it takes to shake a slurp out of the bottle, students and teachers had built a 9-ft.-tall, 50-lb. exact-scale blowup, painted bright red and labeled "Made from fresh overripe tomatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happenings: Easy on the Onion | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

There are only seven complete sets known. Each is made up of 13 spoons, a dozen for the saints of the Last Supper and the last for Christ. Judas Iscariot is replaced by St. Matthias,* for what father would give his child a Judas spoon to slurp up his porridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Stirring Up the Past | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...latter, though it was written by a TV actress, Jacqueline Susann, who insists that the book is practically a kinescope of show-business life as she has seen it lived. If so, it would seem that Author Susann has spent most of her time watching people swallow Seconal, slurp Scotch and commit sodomy. Somebody does one or the other on almost every page, and a large crowd has gathered to watch the exhibition. Dolls is firmly established on all bestseller lists, and has been widely acclaimed as the Dirty Book of the Month. It might more accurately be described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dirty Book of the Month | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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