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...West German Foreign Office said the new rough talk from the Kremlin was an attempt to sow fear and divide the allies ahead of the NATO conference in Paris next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West German Leaders Pledge Common Stand | 12/13/1958 | See Source »

...Pleasure of His Company. A suave drawing-room comedy about a middle-aged playboy who teaches his daughter how to sow some wild oats before settling down to the oatmeal of marriage. Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...half weeks in Boston, and promises to do correspondingly well in New York. But from the aesthetic stand-point, Oliver Smith's pretty sets, some of Carol Haney's choreography, and a few nice songs and pleasant performances are the only silky spots on a lavishly gilded sow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flower Drum Song | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

According to my dictionary, the first meaning of the word "sow" is the "full-grown female of the swine." Therefore, I question the type of "priestly inauguration" held in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. that served "oysters" (no scales or fins) and "mussels" (no scales or fins) and "sow's udder" (Thou shalt not eat the flesh of any animal that doth not chew the cud nor have a cloven hoof). Will you please explain what type of "priest" was inaugurated at the "sumptuous repast" referred to by Author O'Brien in The Bible Cookbook [March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...priestly inauguration that is recorded as having taken place in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. First course: "Sea urchins, plain oysters ad libitum. Two sorts of mussels, thrush on asparagus, a fatted hen, a ragout of oysters and mussels, black and white chestnuts." Second course: "Udders of sows, a pig head, fricassee of fish and sow's udders, two kinds of ducks, boiled hares, a meal pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Cups Jeremiah | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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