Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms its black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
WHILE many another backward part of the world spun its developmental wheels in rampant nationalism, revolution, official corruption, grandiose projects and politics for politics' sake, Puerto Rico buckled to work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE...
...Entree-meat (generally chops, beefsteak, chicken or veal cutlet) or fish (lake trout au court bouillon), Chops and steak broiled over open fire. Chicken similarly broiled or else boiled with rice. Veal cutlets dredged in flour, cooked in skillet with water and served with mushroom sauce. Squab chicken on spit before open fire. Two green vegetables, potatoes or rice. Sweet pie or homemade pudding, such as apple betty, bread pudding, rice pudding, custard; cookies or homemade cakes or gingerbread, canned fruit; canned babas au rhum, etc. Salad with French dressing in warm weather. Cheese-black diamond, Canadian cheddar, with...
...President Milton Eisenhower scheduled to start June 15. The State Department explained that "it has not been possible to schedule mutually convenient dates," but Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty admitted to newsmen that Ike himself had taken a personal hand in delaying his brother's trip. Did the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas have anything to do with it? asked the reporters. "I have no knowledge on that,'' hedged Hagerty...
...main political beneficiaries of the revolt that ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January are Venezuela's Communists. Operating freely since the revolt, they showed their power by leading the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon. Last week, in the embarrassed aftermath of the riot, Venezuela's leftward skid split the ruling five-man junta-but left the Reds uncurbed...