Word: starching
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...brewmasters claim that Budweiser and its higher-priced companion beer Michelob (sold only on draught) have only the finest ingredients, e.g., imported hops, rice instead of oily corn grits, and two-row "Hannchen" barley, whose two rows of kernels in the head are bigger, more even, and contain more starch and less moisture than the more prevalent six-row barley kernels...
...this-is-how-it-really-was quality, Heartbreak is far more than a newsreel. It threads its story on the trial-by-fire of young Lieut. Gérard Garcet, a replacement starch-fresh from St. Cyr. At first Career Officer Garcet learns a basic lesson-war is mostly waiting...
...Chairmen of 11 educational institutions in the Greater Boston Area supervises the Extension for the independent Lowell Foundation, but is association with the University is vital, for this gives the Extension its uniquely high academic status among adult-education programs. "Meeting the degree requirements is what keeps the starch in our courses," says Phelps...
...French Zone of Germany. There, in the Prince's Salon of the Hahnhof, he met Konrad Adenauer for the first time since that October night in Paris when the two men battled until 3 a.m. to hammer out an agreement on the Saar. At first, the atmosphere was starch-stiff with formality and suspicion. But as soon as Der Alte recognized that this time Mendès-France was seeking his help, not handing him an ultimatum, the conversation improved...
Faye Banter gets top billing in the show, and her portrayal of the mother (put them all together you've got MOTHER. . .) is engagingly domineering. Hers is the usual Junior-League-25-years-after sort of role, however, and her comic talents are barely exercised. Arthur Starch, as her son, alternately months and shouts his lines. And his boudoir transformation obviously seems as preposterous to him as the stilted lover scene through which the authors wring him in the first act. It is not his fault that the growing pains have a few audible creaks...