Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...result was a sharp pickup in business. If last week's cut does not spur business, FRB was in a mood to cut some more. But despite spreading unemployment it still planned to move slowly. Warned Martin: "We must recognize that excessive stimulus during a recession can sow seeds of inflation that can jeopardize our long-run stability...